#4411 Watching My Figures

Summary

Podcast Summary: TBTL Episode #4411 - "Watching My Figures"

Release Date: February 26, 2025
Hosts: Luke Burbank and Genevieve (Guest Host)
Title: Watching My Figures

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1. Fixing and Collecting GI Joe Action Figures

The episode kicks off with a nostalgic dive into the world of GI Joe action figures. Luke Burbank shares his journey as a former collector who, years after divesting his collection, finds broken GI Joe figures scattered through his home during moves. This discovery reignites his interest in restoring these beloved toys.

Notable Discussion Points:

• Fixing the Figures:
  Luke explains the process of repairing GI Joe figures by replacing dried-out rubber bands. Genevieve assists by applying Flex Seal to stop leaks in broken items.

  "[11:09] Genevieve: He looks like he's doing some sort of moderation, like, sort of."

• Challenges of Online Bidding:
  The hosts discuss the frustrations of bidding on eBay, especially dealing with automated sniping programs that outbid them at the last second.

  "[12:33] Andrew Walsh: It's a program. Well, to snipe is to basically come in at the last second and barely outbid the high bid..."

• Collectible Value:
  Luke highlights the rising prices of fully functional GI Joe figures, which now range between $30 and $70, emphasizing their status as collector's items.

2. Navigating eBay: Nostalgia and Practical Collecting

Luke and Genevieve delve into their personal eBay histories, reminiscing about past purchases and the sentimental value attached to certain items.

Notable Discussion Points:

• Sentimental Purchases:
  Genevieve shares stories about buying items for loved ones, such as vintage Christmas tree parts for her father and a Timex watch.

  "[22:21] Genevieve: He had the same exact watch, and it broke on him..."

• Modern vs. Traditional Shopping:
  They contrast their experiences with online auctions to finding treasures at local garage and estate sales, advocating for the latter to avoid inflated prices driven by collectors.

  "[28:46] Luke Burbank: Exactly. And this is exactly what I said to Genevieve yesterday... keep an eye out."

3. Critique of Mariners Broadcasts

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to critiquing the broadcast quality of Seattle Mariners games, specifically focusing on the lackluster commentary from broadcasters Gary Hill Jr. and Rick Riz.

Notable Discussion Points:

• Broadcasting Issues:
  The hosts express disappointment with the Mariners' broadcasts, citing minimal game coverage and excessive off-topic discussions that detract from the viewing experience.

  "[35:16] Genevieve: It doesn't even really make sense as a joke, but it just. It's funny to me that they would."

• Listener Experience:
  Genevieve and Luke share personal frustrations with trying to follow the game amidst the distracting commentary, reminiscing about more engaging past broadcasts.

  "[36:46] Luke Burbank: What side? Gary Hill Jr. No, thank you. That's Rico Riz's job."

4. Building Community: Local Bar Stories

The hosts fondly recount their interactions with regulars at their local bar, emphasizing the tight-knit community and memorable personalities like Oscar and Dax.

Notable Discussion Points:

• Community Bonds:
  Luke describes meeting Oscar, a beloved local patron, and the camaraderie shared among regulars.

  "[75:22] Genevieve: He didn't do karaoke, but he. He always hung out on that side room with that guy Dax."

• Personal Connections:
  Genevieve narrates her experiences interacting with long-time bargoers, highlighting the enduring friendships formed over years of shared conversations and gatherings.

  "[76:53] Luke Burbank: Yeah, right."

5. Sports Nickname Challenge

In an engaging segment, Luke and Genevieve participate in a sports nickname game sent in by a listener. They challenge each other to match athletes with their well-known nicknames, leading to humorous reenactments and friendly banter.

Notable Discussion Points:

• Nicknames and Reenactments:
  The hosts attempt to recall and act out various sports nicknames, sometimes stumbling over lesser-known monikers.

  "[63:24] Genevieve: Frank Thomas. Mr. New Genics."

• Humorous Missteps:
  Both hosts occasionally misidentify or confuse nicknames, adding a layer of comedy to the segment.

  "[70:20] Genevieve: Oh, okay, gotcha..."

6. Personal Highlights: Culinary Adventures and Nostalgic Moments

Genevieve shares her recent culinary success in making a hearty kale soup without a recipe, celebrating improvisation in the kitchen. Additionally, the hosts reminisce about past podcast episodes, such as their discussion on Four Loko and the McRib.

Notable Discussion Points:

• Kale Soup Creation:
  Genevieve describes her method of making kale soup, emphasizing the satisfaction of creating a tasty, healthy meal from scratch.

  "[59:26] Genevieve: But I was proud of myself because I was hungry. I wanted to eat something healthy..."

• Nostalgic Reflections:
  The hosts reflect on earlier podcast topics, reconnecting with long-time listeners through shared memories and past content highlights.

7. Listener Interactions and Donor Acknowledgments

The episode features heartfelt acknowledgments of loyal listeners and donors, including messages from Christine Blake, a dedicated supporter facing personal health challenges.

Notable Discussion Points:

• Christine's Message:
  Genevieve reads a touching message from Christine, who shares her gratitude and personal struggles, fostering a sense of community and support.

  "[46:57] Genevieve: She says, 'just to reiterate, if your body is telling you something and it doesn't feel right, get yourself checked out.'"

• Community Support:
  The hosts emphasize the importance of listener contributions in sustaining the show, encouraging continued support and engagement.

  "[38:57] Genevieve: What were we saying on the show the other day?..."

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Notable Quotes:

• Fixing GI Joes:
  "It was very satisfying to fix these two GI Joe toys who were broken." — Luke Burbank [11:09]

• eBay Sniping Frustration:
  "And right now it's $17. It's holding." — Luke Burbank [13:24]

• Broadcast Critique:
  "He was just doing. He didn't even care about the game at all." — Luke Burbank [36:46]

• Community Bonds:
  "I love that everybody kind of knows each other." — Genevieve [76:42]

• Kale Soup Pride:
  "I executed it and it was delicious." — Genevieve [59:46]

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Conclusion: Episode #4411 of Too Beautiful To Live is a rich tapestry of nostalgia, personal anecdotes, community stories, and engaging listener interactions. Luke and Genevieve seamlessly blend their shared histories with current frustrations and joys, creating an episode that resonates with both long-time fans and new listeners. Whether discussing the technicalities of fixing vintage toys, critiquing local sports broadcasts, or celebrating culinary victories, the hosts deliver a heartfelt and humorous exploration of daily life, friendship, and the enduring quest to hold onto cherished memories.

Transcript

[Andrew Walsh]

It's like I always say, a bush in the hand is worth two birds. Like I always say, man, a bird in the bush is worth two hands. A bush bird is worth two. You can lead a bush to birds, but you can't make it hand. Horse in the hand is worth two in the drink. It's like I always say, you can lead a horse to a bird, but you can't make it bush. Bush in the bird hands it worth two horses. You can lead horse hands to a bird, but you can't make it. Horse in the bush is worth two birds. A bird on the horse is worth two bush birds. Horse hands are worth two bird bushes. You can lead a bird to bush hands, but you can't make it drink horse water.

[Luke Burbank]

TBTL this is a show for people about dogs, starring one dog and one dirty dog. Come on up. This is not real sweat either. I sprayed it on. It's made from the actual sweat of professional athletes.

[Genevieve]

And it's romantic and it's full of these sort of situations, which turns out to be. That's very interesting, very scary at times, but also a lot of romance and really well made.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, you either get it or you don't. I don't, but I am so excited.

[Genevieve]

To be a part of it. Well, all right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Wednesday edition of tbtl, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

[Luke Burbank]

This song goes out to all the coffee lovers of the world.

[Genevieve]

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Are you sure? That's what they said on ass. Jeeves. Coming to you from the Madrona Hill studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia where we have oh, Ma pa.

[Luke Burbank]

It's just beautiful.

[Genevieve]

I think we've turned a corner, my friends. It is just an absolute beautiful day. We are in the home stretch. Well, not really. What is it? Today's Wednesday. Carry the one. I don't know. What are we, like, 10 days away from springing forward? From springing ahead?

[Luke Burbank]

Things are going to start happening to me now.

[Genevieve]

I think we are in for a real change of pace around here, and I, for one, am very excited about it. I'm also very excited about episode 4411 in a collector series. Let the fun begin where we find ourselves today. I'm also excited about cracking the code on soup. Tastes like soot and hot water.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm hooked.

[Genevieve]

I am really proud of something I did last night in the culinary department. And when you hear it, when you hear me talk about it later in the show, you are going to be unimpressed as the listener, But I am very proud of it and I want to talk about it with you all. And also my good friend Andrew Walsh, the longest running co bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall. Your voice is like a combination of Fergie and Jesus. He's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

[Luke Burbank]

Luke. Who am I?

[Genevieve]

What a question.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a question I'm asking myself today when I get an email from ebay letting me know we know who you're not.

[Genevieve]

Wheeler Dealer 2000. Because that's me on ebay, letting me.

[Luke Burbank]

Know that I still have the highest bid in for this 1982 GI Joe Cobra soldier action figure. But wait, Luke, you're picturing an action figure that's all in one piece. That's where you're wrong, my friend. This is an action figure that is broken into three pieces. And I am currently the highest bidder at $17. I shouldn't even tell anybody this because they're just going to go in.

[Genevieve]

Is there some sort of medication that you should be taken, have taken none of, or have taken too much of?

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, and this is where you're thinking, this must have been some toy that Andrew had in his youth. Yeah. And he wants to rebuy it. Nope. Never had this character before.

[Genevieve]

An arm that needs replacing on a toy that you have.

[Luke Burbank]

You're.

[Genevieve]

You're. You're going in for a dismember. Is it Cobra? Is it Cobra Commander?

[Luke Burbank]

It is not a Cobra Commander. It's a generic Cobra soldier in a bad guy 82. And it's specifically a bad guy. Okay, let me.

[Genevieve]

What's that retail for?

[Luke Burbank]

Let me explain. Well, I'm the highest bid right now at $17.

[Genevieve]

Well, that is higher than I was.

[Luke Burbank]

That is much cheaper than most of these things. When I place my bid, it was like. Well, I got an automated thing from ebay that says this user usually sells things closer to $30. So let me. Let me back up here a little bit. When I. Let me back up. I was born in 1976 in Fairview, right outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Not too far. I would later learn from the tire dealership that my shady uncle ran in Cam's Corners. But I'm going back too far here. Let's skip ahead to about, I don't know, 12 years.

[Genevieve]

And that seems right.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm a little boy and I'm playing with my GI Joe figures. And it was kind of funny. I did get into them a little bit late. I Think because my mom was not a huge fan of like, sort of like toys with guns and stuff like that. Honestly, her credit.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, to her credit.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And so anyway. But at some point, you know, I really wanted to get into G.I. joe and I did. And I ended up, you know, with a pretty fair, you know, pretty big collection of the toys, various vehicles and various. Did you have full of. I don't think I had Destro. I might have.

[Genevieve]

I don't recall they added Destro in the way that they added Scrappy Doo. I feel really to the Scooby Doo.

[Luke Burbank]

World was he later.

[Genevieve]

I feel like there was in the way that we used to. You'd be watching Scooby Doo and then it would say, and Scrappy too. And he would swing in on a rope and he'd be like, gosh darn it. I feel like Peter and I had a song called Destro's Back that was just Destro's back, Destro's Back, Destro's Back and Destro's Back. Because they were trying to were.

[Luke Burbank]

You were making fun of it. This was making fun of the fact.

[Genevieve]

That there was a GI Joe, there was a modified GI Joe theme song that involved Destro. And it felt like they were trying to make Destro a thing.

[Luke Burbank]

Now that's interesting. Destro was one of the original toys back in 83, so they didn't add.

[Genevieve]

A character, but solid like metal.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

Destroy.

[Luke Burbank]

You're thinking. Sometimes he would refer to as Chrome Dome by Cobra Commander when he would hiss it out. Remember how Cobra Commander would hiss everything out?

[Genevieve]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Anyway, I did have a decent collection of the little action figures growing up. And I really did like them. And then at some point, and I think this is kind of true to who I became mostly in my life was like, I was like, I'm just getting rid of all this stuff I like. I just didn't feel like dragging it around. I don't even think it ever made it out of my parents house. I think I developed in maybe my later teenage years just a carelessness about this at all. And just like I think I gave them all to one person. Maybe some nephew I have. I don't have nephews. I don't know. I gave it to. I gave my entire collection to some person. I'm like, oh, they'll have fun with it. Great. And now as a man in my, you know, late 40s, sometimes I think.

[Genevieve]

Oh, yeah, you're literally piecing the collection back. Well, not one limb at a time.

[Luke Burbank]

That's not Entirely true. What has happened is somehow, through my moving, I have found a few GI Joe action figures here and there in various boxes from my youth. Like when I gave my entire collection away. Oh, I know it was to my friend's kid in probably the early 2000s. And now I'm sure that they've moved a bunch. I'm sure it's just like Gone with the Wind now. But there were a few action figures that somehow leaked their way into my adulthood just by being maybe in the wrong box or whatever. And so now if you come into our basement, you will see maybe. I think I have one Star wars figure which is less fun because they don't bend at the knee or the elbow. And he's standing. I think he's somebody. He's like. He's dressed in all black. He's like a bad guy. He's like one of the guys who's, like, in the Death Star, Right? He might even be the guy who starts choking or something like that.

[Genevieve]

So is he the guy whose lack of faith is troubling?

[Luke Burbank]

It is disturbing, I believe.

[Genevieve]

Disturbing.

[Luke Burbank]

Excuse me. It might be him. Anyway, I have him standing on my Xbox. And then I think I have three other GI Joe characters, and none of them are the good ones, by the way. Like, one of them is Crazy Legs, the paratrooper, and the other guy's. I don't know who they.

[Genevieve]

I don't know about Crazy Legs.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I think Crazy Legs came a little bit later. But anyway, a while back, Crazy Legs, ironically, or aptly enough, his legs done come off, Luke.

[Genevieve]

And you know how the GI Joe doing we're replacing? Yeah, I do know that there's a.

[Luke Burbank]

Rubber band inside all GI Joe guys and at once goes into that weird.

[Genevieve]

Little, like, pinchy thing that is the. Essentially, I guess, the ball joint of the hip replacement that you would be making on a GI Joe character.

[Luke Burbank]

So when these rubber bands inside get dry rot and break, which is something that happens quite often, I think, especially these toys that are, like, 40 years old now, the legs fall off. And then when the legs fall off, there's a pelvic piece that falls off as well. And then you just also have the upper torso, which stays all intact with the head and two arms sticking out of it. And this happened to Crazy Legs, and I was like, oh, well, Crazy Legs. His legs are off now. And I would just keep him on display. On this little dresser we have in the basement is my Far side Off the Wall calendar. And then Crazy Legs leaning up against it with his Legs and pelvis spread out in front of him in a way that probably caused nightmares for some. I didn't really think too much about it. And then the other day, one of these other generic toys I had that sits on our sound bar in front of the TV just enough so that it gets in the way of the bottom third of the screen. I picked a bump off the floor because Bingo likes to knock him down all the time. And when I picked him up, his legs fell off again. The pelvic piece came off, and I said, the Viv's up another one bites the dust or whatever. And she's like, you know, you can buy the rubber bands to fix those. And I'm like, yeah, I know. Camaro Kev tells me that all the time. I took a photo, and I even sent it to Camaro Kev. I'm like, another one bites the dust. He's like, you know, you can fix that. Just buy some rubber band. So anyway, next thing I know, Genevieve is on everybody's least favorite commerce website, and she's like, they're like $5 for a bag of 80 of these rubber bands. I'm buying them. I'm like, okay, fine. The next day, I see that Genevieve is already starting to fix one of these GI Joe guys. The bag has arrived, and she's started the process, but I haven't finished it. I watched a little YouTube video. I forget that there's a little screw in the back of the. Of the G.I. joe guys. You have to unscrew the torso, and then you have to make sure to keep the head and arms in place.

[Genevieve]

I never knew that, which is why I couldn't figure out how to ever get that rubber band.

[Luke Burbank]

They didn't have functional when you were trying to fix them, I think. So all of that is to say it was very satisfying. I was never going to buy these to fix it, but it was very satisfying to fix these two GI Joe toys who were broken. Crazy legs. His legs are less crazy now. He's fixed. He's now standing next to that calendar, but standing in a very, very uncomfortable way. I just sat him down there. And then later, I saw that Genevieve was really insistent on getting crazy legs to stand. But the only way he can stand is if he's holding his hands above his head, but then bending over 45 degrees at his waist. So he looks like he's doing some sort of moder, like, sort of.

[Genevieve]

He looks like me this morning doing my second day of my weight training.

[Luke Burbank]

I'll try to take a Photo of how he's standing, and I'll maybe make it a show. Pick if he's still, like, in that posture. But anyway, it was so satisfying to fix these two little GI Joe guys, and I almost was. Almost wanted more. I was like, I could. I could fix these. I said, genevieve, next time we go to a garage sale this summer, Spring, like, let's keep an eye out for GI Joe guys so we can fix them. I don't know why. I just. I have 80 of these. I have 78 of these. O rings, and I want to.

[Genevieve]

They got to go somewhere.

[Luke Burbank]

Two days ago, after the show, I was just like, yeah. How much did GI Joe guys go for on ebay? Can't be that much. It's an. It's a banana, Michael. What could it cost? Yeah, $7. No, it turns out, like, fully functioning GI Joe guys go for, like, between 30 and 70, probably more, depending on rarity. They're super expensive because they're collector's items.

[Genevieve]

Bazooka go for.

[Luke Burbank]

So then I start Googling Bazooka. I'm like, broken GI Joke.

[Genevieve]

The kids, when Bazooka shows up to tell them that you can't borrowing someone's bicycle without asking is stealing it.

[Luke Burbank]

The more you know. Yeah. What does he say? Pork chop sandwiches. Pork chop sandwiches. Oh, right.

[Genevieve]

Like overdub.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. But anyway, so I'm looking online.

[Genevieve]

You're looking.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm like, let me look for broken ones. They're not that cheap.

[Genevieve]

Luke.

[Luke Burbank]

I bid 17.

[Genevieve]

Somebody else got 80 rubber bands.

[Luke Burbank]

I originally bid, like, $15. I'm not paying more than $15 plus shipping for a Bro GI Joe. GI Joe. That is gonna come in three parts that I put back together. But, man, I do not mess around on these bidding sites often. And this is why, because the second you get an email that says you've been outbid, you're like, you son of a. Are you. Well, you're.

[Genevieve]

No. Wheeler.

[Luke Burbank]

Wheeler, I outbid you. I suddenly have some anonymous enemy who's, like, upbidding me on this GI Joe toy that I'm already bid. I've already bid more than I want on.

[Genevieve]

Did you like a price? Let's say it was going for $10. When on. Did you tell it you would go up to $15?

[Luke Burbank]

And then I did, and then I upped it, like, three times now. And I'm up to. I think I've told it I'm not going above $18, and I'm not. But right now it's $17. It's holding.

[Genevieve]

Might be Going up against a snipe program.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I know, but it makes sense. Yeah. Why not just have a bot Me? Yeah.

[Genevieve]

You want to see something that Wheeler Dealer 2000 Reach recently purchased on ebay?

[Luke Burbank]

This is really your handle? I thought you were just spoofing around.

[Genevieve]

No, dude, it's been my handle since I bought a Subaru outback from Stormville, New York. I bought it on eBay. Wheeler Dealer 2000 did. Wheeler Dealer 2000 cashed in his Kuow 401K to buy a Subaru Outback on ebay.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't even know if I have a name on ebay.

[Genevieve]

You have to.

[Luke Burbank]

Should we.

[Genevieve]

Should we are just a series of numbers.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know. I'm going to look this up. I think the first thing I ever bought on ebay was about 20 years ago and it was cartridge of Super Mario 3 for Genevieve because I still had the original NES when we were dating and she told me that was her favorite game when she was a kid.

[Genevieve]

Oh, that was really. That's a nice thing. I bought this watering can.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh yeah. Like a vintage brass looking.

[Genevieve]

I was. I've got the star jasmine that I'm. That I'm kind of hot housing here. And I was like I'm gonna get more plants in my house and I want to water them. But there's something about the modern watering can that's. It feels to me like if you go on, you know, I don't know, some stylish website and you go like watering can. They're. They're so locked into a certain design aesthetic that I feel like they're all going to look silly in three years. You know what I mean? Like they're over stylized for me because plants are very in style. House plants are really having a moment. So I wanted to get something that was a little bit less tied to a particular moment of time. And I got this guy and it was like, I don't know, 10 bucks or something. Which seemed like a screaming deal until it showed up. Andrew and I water in it.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait.

[Genevieve]

And it 100% leaked water everywhere. So you know what I did?

[Luke Burbank]

I'm looking at the bottom of it. I thought it was maybe bottomless. I thought maybe it was just for indoor decoration. But no, it has a bottom. But I can see that it's. It's got like some erosion on the bottom. I can see well what you're seeing.

[Genevieve]

Yes, there was some erosion on there. But what you're now seeing is flex seal sprayed on there.

[Luke Burbank]

Let me see. Tip it Up.

[Genevieve]

There's a little bit of water in it, actually.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I see. That's why you can't. Okay, interesting. Flex Seal.

[Genevieve]

And I sprayed it on the bottom and inside and it totally worked. Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

Just like the commercial. I've never.

[Genevieve]

Just like the commercial. I felt like I was living in an infomercial. I wanted to make a boat out of it. Yes. Load along the Columbia River.

[Luke Burbank]

Don't they put a screen door in the bottom of a rowboat or something like that?

[Genevieve]

Some craziness. Yes. I went to Home Depot and I went to the. You know, I have something that's supposed to hold water, but it doesn't aisle. And they had Flex Seal and I bought it and it actually worked.

[Luke Burbank]

That's very satisfying.

[Genevieve]

Isn't that insane? Like, I totally thought that was a scam. I mean, I guess I didn't think that was a scam. Cause I spent $18 on the can of Flex Seal.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, you were. Well, you were prepared for it to be a scam. You're like, I'll take an 18 flyer on this.

[Genevieve]

But it totally works. It's like a very. Again, it was the lowest level of repair. I just sprayed it in there and I sprayed in the outside and waited 24 hours. And sprayed on the inside and waited 24 hours. But the fact that it's actually now functional is very, very satisfying.

[Luke Burbank]

How many broken GI Joe guys do you think you could fit in there? How many GI Joe pelvises could you.

[Genevieve]

Between 78 and 80.

[Luke Burbank]

You spent $18 on a grown up purchase of Flex Seal? Well, I'm blowing 18.

[Genevieve]

Is Flex Seal a grown up purchase?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, more than a broken GI Joe toy from 1982.

[Genevieve]

What I'm hearing is that ebay is purely a nostalgia play for you. The other thing, you signed up for it to buy Genevieve a Nintendo game.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

And you're buying GI Joes on it. In fact, I bought a non functional Subaru Outback. Andrew, like a man. Like an adult man.

[Luke Burbank]

Like an adult man. I'm looking to see. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right. I bid on a different one. Snake Eyes. I bid on snake eyes, version 2. Broken up into three pieces, but still had a gun. That thing. I was out.

[Genevieve]

Why did Snake Eyes have a gun? He was a ninja.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know. He's got a little gun there. That's a very good.

[Genevieve]

Don't. Do not. Snake Eyes does not stoop to the level of common weaponry. Snake Eyes is a ninja.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, but he does have a little Uzi there.

[Genevieve]

But anyway, Snake Storm Shadow. Was Storm Shadow the good one and Snake Eyes the bad one or vice versa?

[Luke Burbank]

One of them flipped. Team, I don't even want to answer your question because I don't remember. I was very dialed into this as a kid. I'm looking to see how come it doesn't show me my past. How come? Did I just say how come? I think how come is one of the funniest, ungrammatical things to say.

[Genevieve]

I want to tell you, Andrew, I don't want you to judge yourself too harshly, because if you put Snake Eyes into the Internet, the number one thing that comes up is, was Snake Eyes good or bad? So many people have wondered. Snake Eyes. Oh, wait. Oh, this is not even helpful. According to most reviews, Snake Eyes is generally considered to be a bad movie. So when they say, was Snake Eyes good or bad? They mean the reboot of a movie version of the ninja from G.I. joe called Snake Eyes, not was the character good or bad. So go back to judging yourself.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, so do you want to. This might be fun. And don't worry, it's not too long. But let's go over my order history with ebay because you said, I'm going.

[Genevieve]

To actually log into Wheeler Dealer 2000 and see what he's been up to. Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

So, by the way, this is not my original ebay account. I forgot I had originally signed up all those years ago with a different email address, and that one is now null and void. So this is an account that I've Elon Fan732. This is an account I've had since 2018. So this is the modern era. The last thing I bought before bidding on these GI Joe characters is the earbuds that I used as a kid that I've talked about, I believe, on the show, and I certainly talked about them a lot on a hey Dummies video. Somebody had written in and said, hey, did you ever have a pair of headphones that you really adored in your life? And I thought back to sitting on the bus with my Walkman and these. I don't know if you can see this, Luke. They're still in the bag here.

[Genevieve]

These deep in my ebay history.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, you don't have your thing up.

[Genevieve]

Oh, yeah, those Radio Shacks.

[Luke Burbank]

Radio Shack original earbuds. Before we used the term earbuds, it was during the era where people still had a band on their headphones. But these were earbuds that came in this little plastic round thing that would wind the wire up in a very neatly. And I Listened to. I just remember sitting on the bus listening to the Beatles, listening to the first Nirvana records, like, blasting those. So somebody asked us about headphones. I started talking about these things. I think I found them for $17, and so I bought them on ebay. The thing before that was a comedy Bang Bang DVD season two, I believe, because they don't have that anywhere online. And then foundation and Empire. Those are those Asimov books. And I think I had some versions of them that were starting to fall apart, and it was just driving me bananas. So I spent five bucks to get nicer versions of those in the same kind of imprint that I originally had them. Then McDonald's rockin gold cassettes. Luke, remember that whole journey that I went on? I bought those things back in 2021. And then Hog Wild Monkey Benders Magnetic bendable action figure toy with metal case. I bought those because Genevieve and I somehow inherited one of those magnetic monkeys. It's about the size of a. I don't know, it's like 2 inches tall. It's just made of coated wire, and it bends around. It looks like a little monkey. And it's got magnets. Its hands are magnets and hands and feet. And somebody gave us one or something. And it always was on our. On our refrigerator. It was on the top of our freezer. And Genevieve just had an inside joke about it. Sometimes she would move it, and I said, no, it goes on top of the freezer door, because monkey likes to ride. And so every time we'd open the freezer door, the monkey would go on a ride, and it became this phrase. We'd say all the time, monkey likes to ride. And then we lost it in a move. So as a little gift to Genevieve, I looked up and I found the Hog Wild Monkey Benders Magnetic bendable action figures to replace our original one. And then a Walkman that I bought and didn't work, and they refunded my money.

[Genevieve]

Dirty monkey no talk. Dirty monkey make joke. What did she say?

[Luke Burbank]

I can't remember. Maria.

[Genevieve]

Dirty monkey dance.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Genevieve]

I'm kind of bummed out that the. It doesn't seem like my history on ebay goes back very far. I've got this, of course, previously mentioned water. Can I have a watch that I bought my dad? A Timex easy reader watch. Men's 35 millimeter indiglo silvertone date stretch band A6.

[Luke Burbank]

That's nice.

[Genevieve]

He had the same exact watch, and it broke on him, and he was bummed. And I was able to locate the exact same watch.

[Luke Burbank]

That's the thing with ebay, right? Like, half of my purchases are just things that I used to have that I got rid of and now I want again.

[Genevieve]

I have an Evergleam 6 foot vintage aluminum Christmas tree that I bought and then I had to find the vintage Spartas rotating color wheel, which is the thing that projects the color up on the tree. And then I don't even get pictures, I don't even get thumbnails anymore of my snuff tube pendant keychain with snuff spoon. Magnificent gift. I don't know what the hell that is. How about Levi's men Corduroy Sherpa parka, Trucker button up jacket, regular fit, Chino. And then. Oh, this must have been something for Carrie. Victoria's Secret Beauty rush Body fragrance mist. This was back in 2017. It was a different time.

[Luke Burbank]

And then that was also for your dad.

[Genevieve]

Yep. And then Also delivered in 2017 was a D35 Bosch Mass Airflow Meter sensor GL Volvo. Did I buy a part for a Volvo?

[Luke Burbank]

What year is that?

[Genevieve]

This was in 2017. It was delivered on Valentine's Day.

[Luke Burbank]

What is it again? Say this whole description. I'm gonna Google it.

[Genevieve]

D35 Bosch Mass Airflow Meter Sensor MAF240DL GL Volvo.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, I didn't get all those numbers. It doesn't matter. Let's see how close we get. What is just a car part? Yeah, it's just a. It's a. It's just a car part that I've never seen before. Volvo, dude, this sells right now for eleven hundred dollars. Wait, really? Yeah. Were you into some shady shit? Were you like.

[Genevieve]

I was. I had. I was running a Volvo chop shop for a while.

[Luke Burbank]

Right.

[Genevieve]

Wait, when I was between podcasts. No, I have no idea. Other than it must have been.

[Luke Burbank]

I've never owned a Volvo.

[Genevieve]

I've never owned a Volvo that I remember. And also, I don't ever work on my cars because I don't know what I'm doing. It must have been for somebody else, I think. Was it for Sean? Maybe.

[Luke Burbank]

Does it say this is.

[Genevieve]

Sean had a Volvo.

[Luke Burbank]

What year is this again? You said.

[Genevieve]

Well, it was delivered in 2017. It was delivered on Valentine's Day of 2017, but it doesn't say what the again. It's sold by Al Limo. 2000. A lot of people using 2000 in the handle on ebay. Yeah, I don't. This must have been for somebody else there. You know what? I have a vague memory of this. Somebody that I knew I can't remember who it was. Had a car, probably a Volvo, that was having a problem. And I think I was trying to be nice and find the replacement part, but I cannot remember who that person was. It literally might have been Sean.

[Luke Burbank]

That's interesting. Did Sean drive a Volvo?

[Genevieve]

He did drive for many years.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yeah. Okay, that makes sense. Well, I don't want to put him on front street or whoever that friend is, but, like, I'm looking at this thing. This thing is over a grand on ebay. Now, I'm assuming you did not pay that back in the day.

[Genevieve]

No, it says that I paid 34.9.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, that. That's way more in line of friendship, I was gonna say.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, no, no.

[Luke Burbank]

If you're buying your friends, like, things that are over a thousand dollars, I.

[Genevieve]

Believe you can buy a Volvo from that era for $1,000 easily. No, I'm kind of bummed because I would love to go way back into the, like, you know, 2005 of what was I buying on ebay? I was a big ebay guy.

[Luke Burbank]

Were you?

[Genevieve]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

It is addictive, I gotta say. Like, that thing. Well, you were starting to say before that maybe I'm being had by some sort of a bot or something. That's driving snipe. What is that?

[Genevieve]

It is a program. Well, to snipe is to basically come in at the last second and barely outbid the high bid, as opposed to sitting there and trading bids and running it up. So, in other words, if you're, you know, if we're bidding on the same water can, and we're both sitting there going after each other, and so you make it $5, I make it $6, you make it 7, we run the price off. If you've just put in a bid at $5 and I leave it alone until the auction is ending in 30 seconds, then I make it $6. Yeah, you don't really have the chance to re raise it. And I don't have to pay $40 for it. I'm just paying a little. That's called sniping.

[Luke Burbank]

And that makes.

[Genevieve]

And I think ebay had to do a whole thing where they had to try to, like, create some technology around stopping these sniping programs, because, of course, people had figured out that you could just, you know, put AI on the case and get a sweet deal on a watering can.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I got to say, to wrap up my part of this conversation, I am actually kind of hoping somebody just outbids me.

[Genevieve]

I've been in that position when somebody.

[Luke Burbank]

When I got an email that said, you've been outbid, I had a visceral reaction to that. And I said, you don't outbid me. And so then I. I upped my bid a bit, and now you regret it. What am I doing? And I said, up to 18. And then I looked to see if I could take that back, and it doesn't look like I can. So there's a. And right now, like I said, I'm the leading bidder at $17. But this is not the spirit with which I entered this project. I was just thinking about the fact that I have 78o rings, and I was like, I'll do. It was fun to fix those guys. I'll fix some more. But. But this is not sustainable. I'm not a GI Joe collector. I have no intention of recreating my GI Joe collection.

[Genevieve]

You're not a real American hero.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm not a real American hero. I like pork chop sandwiches. So the thing is, this summer, one of my favorite things to do is go to garage sales with Genevieve. We don't do it enough. And I think that this is the type of thing where if you're going on ebay, you're already going where the collectors are. So everything is already priced for collectors. What I need to do is just keep an eye out. That's the fun thing. You keep an eye out. You go to this garage sale. You go to that garage sale, somebody's mom threw a whole bunch of GI Joe things in a bucket and said, you can have the whole thing for five bucks because their pelvises are broken. And I say, I have.

[Genevieve]

You need a barn.

[Luke Burbank]

Find that. Yeah, I don't know that term, but it sounds about right.

[Genevieve]

It's like, you know, for classic cars and boats and things, it's like the idea is that some old farmer put something in a barn years ago. Like, he put a Camaro in there or a cool, you know, lap Strake Owens marine boat, and then passed away. And now his, you know, children are just trying to clean that barn out.

[Luke Burbank]

That's.

[Genevieve]

That's what you want. That of GI Joe's. Not like, you don't want to be in an environment like ebay where, like you said, all the collectors are already there running the prices up.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. And this is exactly what I said to Genevieve yesterday. We were sort of chatting about this, and I said something like, yeah, or maybe like, estate sales. If we go to estate sales. And Genevieve's like, oh, yeah, now, this is something you don't know about Genevieve, and maybe we should just have her on the show at some point again to update us on her, like, kind of online life. Because I think we've talked with her about this before. She's gotten really big into the online estate sale auctions, and she's like, I.

[Genevieve]

Did not know this even was a thing.

[Luke Burbank]

She's been buying and selling. And I think she doesn't tell me about a lot of it because I tease her about it. And I am a little bit worried about. For me, it's more about. It's never about money. It's just about space. I don't like clutter, and I don't like more and more things.

[Genevieve]

Well, you're operating under a one in, one out policy regarding your cost coffee mug. I think you have every right.

[Luke Burbank]

You're really trying to drive a wedge between our family.

[Genevieve]

Why am I trying to destroy your. Your lifelong relationship?

[Luke Burbank]

But for me, like, you know, I don't. I don't. You know, whatever the money stuff is, is not. Not an issue. But if Genevieve wants to spend money on whatever she wants to spend money on, it's her damn money. But I don't love the feeling of just bringing a bunch of things into the house without having a plan for them. And you can start to go down that line when you start talking about.

[Genevieve]

Like, my mother is far down that line.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, Genevieve got like a little. She got like this embroidered thing that says 10 rules for being a Seahawks fan in this house. Don't your folks have something along the.

[Genevieve]

Lines of that Seahawks parking only.

[Luke Burbank]

There was something in the basement that was more embroidered. When we were doing the show from the basement a couple of years ago, there was. I feel like it was a Seahawks thing. It was like 10 rules for dating my Seahawks daughter or something. I can't remember what it was, but anyway, it sounds like what she's doing, though, is she's doing a lot of these auctions and then reselling stuff she's, like, looking for. She's been very into ceramics lately, so she's been doing research on various ceramics. I don't know anything about this because again, I don't think she likes talking to me about it too much because she knows I'm going to be like, what are we going to do with this? But I think she's been learning about them and then looking for them where they're undervalued, buying them and realizing, oh, I can turn this around. And she said that. That's. That's sort of the trick with an Estate sale is if you're going to some sort of sale and it's already for a bunch of ceramics lovers, everything is going to be very expensive. But what you want to do is find an estate sale that is mostly something else. But they've also thrown in a couple of these things because they're just trying to get rid of this stuff. And so it's a little bit of like, Pearls Before Swine or like a Gary Hill Jr joke in front of Rick Riz, which I was just so he can't.

[Genevieve]

Are you talking about the Mariners radio team that we'll be listening to all season?

[Luke Burbank]

I just. Now when I think of Pearls Before Swine, I was so mad the other day. I just kept thinking about it because I was listening to one of the spring training games and I loved Gary Hill Jr. When he can, like, yuck. Goldsmith, Aaron Goldsmith. And they're on the same wavelength, and they're just nerds and they can make a joke. And God bless Rick Riz. He can. I mean, a Gary Hill Jr joke in front of Rick Riz is just one of the saddest things. It's like looking at a. Like, it's like looking at a milkshake that you've been desiring for six months, only the other person doesn't want it, and they just leave it in the sun to curdle. It is just. He cannot riff at all.

[Genevieve]

Gary Hill Jr's ironic that Riz can't riff. Riz has no Riz.

[Luke Burbank]

He has no. I hate to say it, he has no Riz. And I just don't know how I'm gonna get through a season of just, like, watching Gary Hill Jr try to have a little bit of fun and just have it die on the screen.

[Genevieve]

Imagine the Mariners are playing the White Sox and they're in a part of Chicago, and you are wondering as a listener, is it north regionally, is it east directionally? What part of Chicago are we in? Like, what side tell you that?

[Luke Burbank]

What side?

[Genevieve]

Gary Hill Jr. No, thank you. That's Rico Riz's job.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't want to beat up on Riz. I really don't. It's a bit of an institution. I love him in theory, you know, but, like, I don't know. Like, I just. I love Goldsmith and Gary Hill Jr. They were just so on the same wavelength. And this is one of those things where I understand they probably want to put. They did the shakeup and they're putting all their. Well, their gold talent on the TV side. That makes Sense. But they're kind of messing up some chemistry a little bit here.

[Genevieve]

Yeah. Once again, us, the radio people, the radio appreciators, are getting short shrift, because I think the idea must be the Mariners must make a lot more obviously off of the TV broadcast and the radio broadcast. They must think, who's even listening to this? And it's like us while we're mowing the lawn, you and me.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And they want people, you know, that we're still, like, in the fallout of, like, the local sports television broadcast deal kind of falling or getting more expensive in the cable tier system. And so anyway, the whole ownership is freaking out about not getting enough subscribers to their root sports network.

[Genevieve]

They're coming broke.

[Luke Burbank]

So they're. Obviously, they want to do whatever they can to get people off of the radio and into the. Into the TV product. So, anyway, I.

[Genevieve]

Let me ask you an important question, and this has nothing to do with the fact that we're doing our job right now and has everything to do with me trying to understand something. Are they broadcasting the spring training games.

[Luke Burbank]

On TV or radio? Only select few you have to look at. Okay, good.

[Genevieve]

Phew. Because part of this whole Fubo. I saw John Sklaroff shouting Fubo out online yesterday from our account saying, guys, we're just doing free ads for you. Could you make them. Not free ads.

[Luke Burbank]

Right.

[Genevieve]

But one of the reasons that I got on that was because it allegedly has the Mariners. But I've never tested the theory. I have a recording set up now. Like, it will record Mariners games, but I'm not seeing very many Mariners.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you see the first one was on route. Right. You grabbed. Yes, I think it was definitely on the website. And then.

[Genevieve]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

The other day when they had their first game, I was looking it up. They're only. Because not all the. Not all of the fields in Arizona have cameras. Like, they were playing the brewers yesterday or the day before. I think it was the day before. And the brewers don't have cameras at their facility. Like, it would be literally impossible to broadcast it.

[Genevieve]

Why does that feel inherently Milwaukee brewers to me. Is it because of the Bob Euchre factor? Like, how do they have a stadium that doesn't even have the capacity for filming the games? I mean, the brewers actually have been good in the last few years.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And I like it.

[Genevieve]

It doesn't even really make sense as a joke, but it just. It's funny to me that they would. You'd think that every spring training stadium would be equipped to film things.

[Luke Burbank]

I just think that it sort of evolved. Maybe in the future it will, but I just don't think that there's been that much of an emphasis on spring training as much in the past as far as a broadcast thing. Well, that's good.

[Genevieve]

That's actually a relief to me because it means I'm not, like, missing these games. It's not that I've not been sold a bill of good by Fubo yet.

[Luke Burbank]

They're all streaming on the. On the, like, you know, ML app, and I think they're playing them all on 710 up here. I know that you. I don't know if you get. You get seven.

[Genevieve]

I have. I get it on Serious.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Yeah. So you can listen to the games. And I was kind of. I love Riz's love of the south side of Chicago, outside of Chicago.

[Genevieve]

Teachers impacting not for a day, but for a lifetime.

[Luke Burbank]

The famous brewers broadcaster you just mentioned.

[Genevieve]

Oh, Bob Euchre.

[Luke Burbank]

Bob Euchre. And we did a whole thing on Euchre. Of course, Euchre is beloved. But I was so bummed. Like, I know it's just spring training, but, like, like, the only thing Riz talked about for the first two, two and a half innings of the game was Euchre stories. He was barely following the game at all. And, like, go down that memory lane. Absolutely. But, like, keep that for later in the game. I couldn't. I mean, the early innings of the. Of a spring training game is where you're more likely to have more interesting play because that's when the star players are going to get a little bit of action. Right. Like, and I just couldn't believe it. Like, he was just doing. He didn't even care about the game at all. All he wanted to do was talk about how much he loved me.

[Genevieve]

Hear a ball being hit by a bat, and you're like, wait, what just happened?

[Luke Burbank]

It was a really disappointing broadcast the other day, I'll tell you that much. Yeah.

[Genevieve]

I listened to one. I listened to, like, three innings of a game, and it was. I can't remember who the starter was. It was one of. You know, I think it might have been. Who's Logan Gilbert? I think it might have been Logan Gilbert.

[Luke Burbank]

That would have been the brewers game a couple of days ago. Yeah.

[Genevieve]

And. But he had just, like, he started the inning, but he didn't finish the inning. And then I think that they. They cleared the bases.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was it. That was it.

[Genevieve]

There was, like, a guy did A guy fielded the ball behind his back and threw it over the first baseman's head.

[Luke Burbank]

That poor. It was like some picture getting his very first turn. I can't remember his name. It was his first.

[Genevieve]

And I was like, all right, well, that's about enough. That for the moment they turned it around though.

[Luke Burbank]

They ended up getting 11 runs or something that game. I think the Mariners have gotten between 10 and 11 runs every game for the past four games.

[Genevieve]

Save it.

[Luke Burbank]

I know that's what everybody's saying. Luke Arkins is saying. Don't get your hopes up. This is not going to translate.

[Genevieve]

We was hoping for some razzle dazzle. Razzle dazzle. That's right, man. Razzle dazzle.

[Luke Burbank]

On your mark. On your mark. Get set, get set now.

[Genevieve]

Ready, ready, go.

[Luke Burbank]

Everybody rattle dazzle.

[Genevieve]

Hey, let's thank some dazzling donors. These wonderful, generous folks are supporting TBTL with a dazzling donation of dough. It's the only way this thing can happen five days a week. Otherwise we'd be calling a spring training game for the what level we sing. Not even single a. I don't think we could even cut it at single.

[Luke Burbank]

A. I don't think so. Could I call a fish sticks game? I think we have a listener.

[Genevieve]

Brandon, haven't we been invited throughout. Haven't you been invited throughout the first.

[Luke Burbank]

Pitch of this the first fish? I believe. I believe Brandon. I don't know if he's still listens to the show, but he's invited us out there. I did go to my first fish sticks game last summer as an absolute blast.

[Genevieve]

We need to thank. I think we were talking about. What were we saying on the show the other day?

[Luke Burbank]

I made a joke. I made a joke about how. Not a joke. I was talking about how east coast sports radio tends to be a little bit more sharp elbowed bars. Like I said the east barbs or the barbs of the east or something. And you talked about a barb of the west.

[Genevieve]

Yes, that's right. Our friend San Jose Barbie, AKA Barbara West. Barbara, AKA Barbie, has been a part of the show since the radio days, if I remember right, and I probably said this last time. But I want to say that Barbara was one of the first kind of engaged listeners from outside of the Seattle area that I remember. And I just remember thinking, I can't believe we have a listener all the way down in San Jose, California.

[Luke Burbank]

San Jose Barbie.

[Genevieve]

That's right. She says hello to my favorite business boys. Can't believe another year has gone by and I still haven't thought of anything clever to say that makes Two of us, Barbie. I just continue to be amazed at how long this wacky podcasting relationship has lasted. I've been listening to these Shenanigans for nearly 16 years now. And since I usually listen when I'm out hiking, certain trails make me think of certain shows. What's more peaceful than hiking the beautiful new Almaden Trail? While thinking about the Four Loko and McRib episode, can you tell me about that?

[Luke Burbank]

Do you remember that?

[Genevieve]

I think I do. I think we drank 4 Lokos and 8 McRibs kind of right there in the name. I think it was when the Four Loko was maybe having a moment in that it was being banned by certain.

[Luke Burbank]

Law enforcement because it sold alcohol in it at the time, I believe.

[Genevieve]

Well. Well, yes, and I believe it still does. The thing about Four Loko is Four.

[Luke Burbank]

Loko is just an energy drink now. Does it still have booze in it?

[Genevieve]

Oh, maybe it's been downgraded, I guess. I don't know. At that time, it had a lot of alcohol in it. And what was happening was because of its combination of caffeine and alcohol, people I think somebody had maybe died from it or somebody had had a real bad medical reaction because the caffeine tricked your body into. It's sort of like doing a speedball, right? It would be like having a lot of alcohol and like a lot of cocaine where your body didn't realize how drunk it was because of the upper of the caffeine.

[Luke Burbank]

It's like a Red Bull and vodka sort of. By the way, you're absolutely right. There's still. I don't know. I thought they made some sort of change, and I thought they had ditched the booze part of it. But no, they're still an alcoholic beverage.

[Genevieve]

And how the McRib was part of this, I don't really know. Except they must have brought the McRib back. I'm surprised we're having a Shamrock Shake.

[Luke Burbank]

With all of this. I'm thinking about getting a Shamrock Shake, by the way. Do you mind if I just interject quickly?

[Genevieve]

It's that time of year, isn't it?

[Luke Burbank]

And I haven't had one, I don't think, since my youth. And sometimes I think about. I'm like, oh, maybe when it's springtime, I'll get myself a Shamrock Shake. Probably a loss later. I think it's minty. That's the thing, Luke. I don't even know if I want it. Like, I never. Like, we were just talking about that.

[Genevieve]

You gotta go to that McDonald's.

[Luke Burbank]

I rarely go to McDonald's.

[Genevieve]

A breakfast sandwich and a shamrock shake.

[Luke Burbank]

I think the last time I had a milkshake was when I was driving up from the TV telethon down in your neck of the woods. How long of a drive is it from your place to Seattle? Two hours.

[Genevieve]

Two plus hours.

[Luke Burbank]

And I remember I was getting really, really drowsy. So I pulled off the highway, went through a McDonald's. Drive thru. Drive thru Luke. Got myself a milkshake. That's the last time I got a milkshake. I don't even know if I like shamrock shake, but I just have it in my head that like, oh, it's time to get a shamrock shake. And I'm going to. I'm going to reintroduce this into my life. I don't know why.

[Genevieve]

Will you do that and give us a full report?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, let me.

[Genevieve]

I don't think I've ever had one. I'm guessing that they're minty because they're green or you know, they're green coated.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I think they're minty, but I've.

[Genevieve]

Never actually had one. Barbie says, how could I hike the Hacienda Trail, AKA Cardiac Hill without fondly remembering Andrew's terrified rooftop adjacent screams during the Blue Angels episode?

[Luke Burbank]

I mean I was also screaming on the rooftop. A little bit of that.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, you were not rooftop adjacent. You were rooftop.

[Luke Burbank]

I eventually photos to prove it. Yes. Very cool looking photos.

[Genevieve]

I hope you keep doing this forever or until we are all too senile to remember how to operate. Please Barbara, please don't manifest that for all. We need you all to continue operating your phones both to listen to the show and to donate to the show.

[Luke Burbank]

So can I give you. You and I were just talking about this off air sometimes when we look for old segments we did on Cairo Radio. Whether you with TBTL back in the day or us with the Luke and was it the Ross and Broadband show? Sometimes we can't find the audio for it, but we find the blog posts that accompanied the audio way back in the day. And on April 5th, 2011 you wrote this blog post and it is signed Luke Berber.

[Genevieve]

I don't. I already don't like, I won't.

[Luke Burbank]

I won't read the whole thing but.

[Genevieve]

I promise you I use one term that is probably objectionable now like as in inappropriate and another that's just basic. Like I probably said, I don't even awesome sauce or something.

[Luke Burbank]

It says Dear Penthouse Forum, I never.

[Genevieve]

Thought I'd be writing.

[Luke Burbank]

Never thought this would happen.

[Genevieve]

I thought Jen was gonna do this. It says, can't believe I have to write this blog post.

[Luke Burbank]

The headline again. This is April 2011. Friday on TBTL. Dav Daris tells the funniest joke you've ever heard. Today we catch up. Yeah, it sounds great, right? And so you're talking about his latest offering, the Amazing squirrel seeks chipmunk. I never even heard of that one. Look, that one skipped my past. My radar. But then it says, also, Jen and I will roll. I'm skipping ahead a couple of graphs here. Jen and I will roll out a new segment called News Food, in which we will eat and drink stuff that's in the news. Friday, we'll eat a McRib and chase it down with some four loko. For reals. See you at high reels.

[Genevieve]

I don't like that.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it was period then. For reals. Period. See you at high. Hey, better than awesome. Food News Today. That's why you have Food News Today.

[Genevieve]

Probably, huh? You know what? That would have been when we were no longer on the radio.

[Luke Burbank]

Radio.

[Genevieve]

That's when we were doing the podcast, but still under the age banner.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Yeah, okay, sure. A.

[Genevieve]

How do you use that word? It's like a. Ages of Cairo. Like, we were still there. We were splitting revenue with them for some advertising, but. But we did not have a time slot, if I remember, because I remember doing that David Sedaris interview in, like, a production room. And then I also remember David Sedaris mailing me a postcard afterwards.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yeah.

[Genevieve]

Which I was very excited about.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that's right. Because you. And because I would have started on TBTL in 2020 12. Ish. I think so maybe about a year after this or so. And we were still recording often in Cairo. Yeah, not exclusively, but we still, like, had the option to do it there. So. Yeah, you guys were still recording there for a while. You know, I never realized that Aegis, it means like the backing or support.

[Genevieve]

That's what it means of a particular.

[Luke Burbank]

Person or so it's kind of what I mean, which makes sense. There's that.

[Genevieve]

There's that insurance company.

[Luke Burbank]

No, it's like, like kind of assisted living and. Oh, yeah. Called Aegis L. That makes thinking of Shag. It's. It's. It's.

[Genevieve]

You're thinking of the place where Lupinella bones all of the retirees.

[Luke Burbank]

That is, I guess. And Shag is actually supported. Right. Like, that's some sort of supportive housing.

[Genevieve]

I think it has some element of. I guess it would Be maybe Medicare, Medicaid.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, something.

[Genevieve]

There's some. But. But I don't think it's strictly that.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, gotcha. But anyway, yeah, so that makes sense. Aegis Living, it's supported support. We're supporting folks who live here. That's great.

[Genevieve]

Yes, maestro.

[Luke Burbank]

So you.

[Genevieve]

That was that.

[Luke Burbank]

Really hope. Really hope. Well, I just really was hoping that you had one thing to say so we didn't end on my stupid Aegis.

[Genevieve]

I'm sorry, I didn't.

[Luke Burbank]

Any joke, Any joke.

[Genevieve]

Look who it is, it's Christine Blake, who's in New Malden, Southwest London, United Kingdom. One of my favorite places to have just been.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. When your favorite places.

[Genevieve]

I've just been to a lot of places, Andrew, but I've most recently just been to London. It was spectacular. Oh, this is Christine, our London based Scottish 10, I believe. Each year when we thank Christine, I ask her, would you mind just reading the phone book and sending us a voice memo?

[Luke Burbank]

And she hasn't yet. So maybe we should stop.

[Genevieve]

You know, we'll just take the money. Actually, let's say in lieu of reading the phone book, we will take the financial support. Your London based Scottish 10 here. Glad to be supporting the podcast for another year. The past year has been a difficult one. My 11 was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer and although he's doing okay, good. It has led to a lot of adjustments, as you can imagine, and meant that I've been a bit of an intermittent listener, especially in the last few months. Well, Christine, seen, you know, life, as they say, be life in for you. So I really hope you're taking care of yourself and, and taking care of your partner and focusing on the important things, TBTL not being one of them. I'm hoping to get back into regular listening now that we're in the new Year, no matter how awful that New year might be. Try it over here. Christine, listen, the UK was a merciful break. I told you. Like, I went in and watched the UK Supreme Court and I don't even know what these people are up to. They might also suck, but they just felt better than being in the us Everything felt better. Like, you know, can I know you had a whole Boris Johnson situation, but you got rid of him.

[Luke Burbank]

You know how you were asking if the Supreme Court in the United States also has a gift shop? Because you stop by the gift shop there. And I did. We heard from two different listeners, I believe, who both had the same KnickKnack from the US Supreme Court gift shop or the Same person.

[Genevieve]

Oh, is it bodily autonomy?

[Luke Burbank]

What's.

[Genevieve]

Oh, no, no, they don't do that there.

[Luke Burbank]

That is pretty good. What did they get anyway? So there is a world for a second. Yeah. So there is apparently a Supreme Court gift shop here in the US and it looks like one of the more popular items is a pencil. And it's like your traditional looking pencil, except when you get up to the top of the eraser part, it's like a T. Like it's a little. Like it's a gavel and there's an eraser on either side. If you can sort of picture, it's like the pencil is like a pencil with two erasers on the top. And it's like a little gavel that you can pound. And it says the U.S. supreme Court.

[Genevieve]

They should have some sort of Nina Totenberg related thing, like a Nina Toten bag or whatever there.

[Luke Burbank]

Because.

[Genevieve]

Because I feel like she has done more than any other media personality to really put them on the map.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Which actually some people had called her out for her close connections to. Some remember it was her. Remember, like, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, for a second I was blanking on her name and I'm like, you can't blink on this one, Walsh. You simply can't blank on this one.

[Genevieve]

The thing is, Andrew, one of the things you need to know when doing the podcast is when it's time to quit.

[Luke Burbank]

I think about that all the time, but I mean, if it could change anything, I would resign right now. Luke. But do you remember, though, like, she had a pretty close relationship and she was both covering the court and had a close relationship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and she was sort of called out on that a little bit.

[Genevieve]

So probably that feels like the most left wing critique I've ever heard. Like, do we think Nina Totenberg was a Bader Ginsburg apologist? Because, I mean, she might have been, I guess. Did she cover her in a way that was notable?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know that anybody that was.

[Genevieve]

Notable that she knew her. This feels like lefties getting up early to find a problem with.

[Luke Burbank]

To fight amongst themselves. Yeah, I don't, I don't. I've told you basically everything I know about that. I didn't go digging deep into it, but I just remember I just could see a world in which maybe the Supreme Court celebrating one of the people who cover the.

[Genevieve]

That would, you're right, that would be over the line, but it would probably do good business. So they'd sell a lot of those figurines or whatever it would be. Be back to Christine's message, back to the UK back to London, UK, where Christine, our Scottish 10, is. She says, a big message from me to the tens. Listen to your body. And when something doesn't feel right, get yourself checked out. It could have been so much worse if Mr. B hadn't done that. I wonder if she has to call her husband Mr. B because they're in England. I think that's a British thing, the.

[Luke Burbank]

Mr. Part of it, the sort of properness of it, you mean.

[Genevieve]

It feels like a Downton Abbey kind of a thing to me, Mr. B. Well, they got Mr. Bean over there.

[Luke Burbank]

They certainly do have that.

[Genevieve]

I mean, we've got Mr. Clean. They have Mr. Bean.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

Do you think Mr. Clean is Republican coded?

[Luke Burbank]

You ever watch the earliest commercials of Mr. Bean? They are Mr. Bean, Mr. Clean. They are so frightening. Like these old black and white commercials, really.

[Genevieve]

Was he always bald with the earring?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. And I believe I could be wrong about this. I can't remember if he's animated in the beginning or if he's actually portrayed by some sort of huge actor, but I believe they're very scratchy old black and white commercials where there's like a woman scrubbing the floor on her hands and knees, and then suddenly this just monster of a man appears like an apparition in front of her with a very, very deep voice. Are you Googling this? I'm trying to give you time to Google this in case you have any interest in this. Or we can just move right back to Christine's message.

[Genevieve]

I'm typing in original Mr. Clean. Oh, yeah. He looks like Telly Savalic.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. It is a man, right? It's not a cartoon.

[Genevieve]

No, it's a. It's a human man.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And it's.

[Genevieve]

And let's see here. I'm going to voice was there. Once we get done with this commercial for Daredevil A, we are going to play you a little bit of this. Okay. I don't know what the audio is going to be like, but this is Mr. Clean live and in person is how this is described. And it looks like it's the original or one of the original commercials. Here we go.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, wow.

[Genevieve]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

No, Scary.

[Genevieve]

Yeah. Why is there no audio? Is there no audio? I can just tell you the visuals are terrifying. It's a dimly lit hallway.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Is there a woman?

[Genevieve]

A woman is on the floor cleaning. And that's exactly what I remember, is approaching her in a way that feels like this is the opening to an episode of Dexter.

[Luke Burbank]

Right.

[Genevieve]

Like, it's really ominous.

[Luke Burbank]

Does it look like the audio is bad or we just haven't gotten to the dialogue yet? Yet.

[Genevieve]

I think the audio is bad.

[Luke Burbank]

I'll.

[Genevieve]

I'll needle drop it here, but I have a feeling. Oh, yeah, you can see something crazy with the audio. But the woman is, again, very, very. How do I put it? She doesn't SEEM Glad that Mr. Clean is there. And I can't blame her.

[Luke Burbank]

No. He is an imposing presence in the commercial that I remember.

[Genevieve]

Well, Christine says, just to reiterate, if your body is telling you something and it doesn't feel right, get yourself checked out. It could have been so much worse for Mr. B had he not done that. Love, you guys. What you do is so important. Well, Christine, we are so glad to hear that you and Mr. B are doing well, and it's a very, very good message. Andrew, are you listening to your body? Are you? I've been through it, dude.

[Luke Burbank]

You've been through it.

[Genevieve]

I've been. They put me up on. They put me up on the jacks and looked at the whole undercarriage.

[Luke Burbank]

I am going to the doctor on Monday, and because I have to get a check in, like, every three months or so to look at my blood and inflammation and various things. But I am going to mention how things smell funny. I do think it's related to that medication because I noticed that yesterday was another bad smell day for me, and that means something different than what it used to mean. And I realized, oh, is it always happening the day after I take that medication that is the strongest? So two weeks so far would seem to show that pattern. I don't think it's a big deal. I don't think there's anything to fix about it. But I'm a little bit worried because, like I said, when you type it, things are starting to smell funny. Everybody's like, you have a brain tumor online. That's what everybody says. So I'm hoping that I don't have to get an MRI thing. Yeah, let's go to the doctor.

[Genevieve]

Let's do what Mr. B did. Let's go to the doctor. Let's listen to our body.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And I'm gonna get that. I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get the. The. The. The. The wheels rolling and the colonoscopy stuff. So.

[Genevieve]

Excellent. Well, thank you, Christine, for supporting tbtl. We really do appreciate. Thank you. Also.

[Luke Burbank]

Hello and welcome to Top Story.

[Genevieve]

Andrew. This is the lowest level of Top Story, and I'm only going to Take two seconds with this because I want to play a little sports nickname game with you. Are you, how big are you on the wilting of kale into your soup?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, occasionally I will get like a wedding, like an Italian wedding soup that has maybe that or maybe that's. That's not kale, is it? No, I'm not sure. I don't think.

[Genevieve]

Some kind of a green, right?

[Luke Burbank]

It's a green, yeah. So no, I don't think I've ever had kale in my soup.

[Genevieve]

It's amazing. Last night I was watching because I'm high minded. I was watching the Netflix true crime Scott Peterson docu series because I really needed to get to the bottom of that situation. I actually kind of did because I don't know how plugged into the news you were back in 2002 when that thing went down, but it was a huge story. And then there was recently, quite sadly, Scott Peterson's wife, Lacy Peterson, who was pregnant at the time, went missing and her body was found as was the fetus. And he is in jail now for having done this. And there's no logical explanation other than he did it. But like a year, maybe a year ago there was this like, believe it or not, there's like an off brand Innocence Project. There's like an Innocence Project that doesn't have the imprimatur of the like Barry Sheck version of the Innocence Project. And they were coming out with some stuff that like Scott Peterson didn't do it. And it was a very annoying media story because people were basically saying the Innocence Project is saying that, that Scott Peterson is innocent. Usually when the Innocence Project says somebody's innocent, it's cause they're innocent. But this was like a non sanctioned Innocence Project or whatever. So I kind of wanted to re familiarize myself with the story and be like, did he maybe not do it? And I can't see any universe in which this person didn't commit this crime based on the evidence that was presented. But midway through I started feeling kind of hungry and I thought, you know, I've got this bag of kale. I don't feel like eating a full on kale salad. But I do think it'd be good for me to have some kale. And I thought, you know what would be yummy is if it was wilted into a soup of some kind. And so I was very proud of this. I just like without any kind of recipe, I like had, I had some celery in the crisper and I had some, you know, What I'm really big on right now is the pre peeled garlic. Have you ever messed with that?

[Luke Burbank]

No, I've seen it before. It's somewhat tempting, but I usually just buy.

[Genevieve]

It just is such a time saver. I was using garlic and you and everybody else was saying, particularly Becca was saying, that's just terrible. Don't use that.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I don't know if I ever said that's terrible. I just don't use.

[Genevieve]

I thought people who are good. I think of you as a good cook and people who are good cooks, I think frown upon Jarlic.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know. I don't. I. I also shy away from that in the same way you shy away from calling yourself a vegetarian. Because I'm somebody who late in life is starting to learn my way around the kitchen. But I think I'm not a good cook. But anyway, go ahead.

[Genevieve]

Well, so this, this pre peeled garlic to me is the perfect solution because the, you've, you've cut out like 60% of the, if not more of the kind of prep time, but you're still getting fresh garlic, which is, you know, the goal. So I chopped up this garlic. I threw some. I had an onion, half of an onion somewhere in the back of the veggie drawer, which was still decent. So I got my aromatics going, threw them into the big, you know, pot and threw some olive oil in there and just kind of got a nice little base going. And then I had a bunch of still from my colonoscopy low sodium veggie broth, which I made high sodium veggie broth by putting a bunch of salt in it. And then I had some carrots and stuff. And I basically just threw a bunch of stuff from the fridge into this broth. And again I applied a liberal amount of salt. And then when it was just coming to a nice boil and kind of the flavors were all melding, I just like threw a bunch of kale in there and it just wilted just enough. So then I'm eating this very hearty soup that's like really, you know, savory and tasty, but it's got this kind of like mostly wilted kale in it, which is turns out the best way to eat kale. I'm not always a huge fan of it in a salad.

[Luke Burbank]

I was like.

[Genevieve]

And again, I didn't follow a recipe. I know this is not. I said at the top of the show people were going to be unimpressed when they heard me describe this, and they are, but I was Proud of myself because I was hungry. I wanted to eat something healthy. I wanted to eat it in a way that felt more satisfying than just throwing it into a salad bowl. And I executed it and it was delicious.

[Luke Burbank]

And you just like, kind of, you know, through caution, I improvised and improvised. Yeah, I'm really, really bad at that. Especially anything kind of soup based like that. So, yeah, that's, that's, that's squad goals.

[Genevieve]

I was very proud. I was very proud of myself.

[Luke Burbank]

Our squad has very pedestrian goals, but no, we are.

[Genevieve]

We're nothing if not managed in our.

[Luke Burbank]

Squad goals as a squad. Exactly.

[Genevieve]

Okay, let's talk about sports nicknames, but not before I've gotten the sports nickname theme here for you, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

I've never heard that before.

[Genevieve]

It's pretty short.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you just. Is that the version you have or did you just know it?

[Genevieve]

It's the first one that came up. That's round ball rock. 8 seconds. I also have basketball. Ba ba ba ba. Basketball.

[Luke Burbank]

I want to dunk it. Throw me the ball. I want to dunk it.

[Genevieve]

Okay, can we do it one time without the lyrics? My gut says no.

[Luke Burbank]

It's based on a poem my brother wrote, is my favorite line from that sketch.

[Genevieve]

I mean, the revision is history around Tim Robinson in our age cohort, I think, and gender cohort is intense. And words. I feel like everything. The very. The few things that he got onto the air at SNL now are like, canon for me. But I don't know if that's because they're so great or because I just, like, love Tim Robinson so much.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Now that we all know who he is and love him, people go back and find, oh, well, also, did you see this appearance of his on like, you know, Seth meyer's show in 2005 or whatever? And they always hit. But anyway, you and I were talking on the show the other day. Somehow we were talking about sports. I mean, I. I was just thinking before, we were talking about estate sales and like mid thought I switched the conversation to the Mariners. So how we ended up talking about sports was probably my fault in some way. But I love it when you mention players nicknames. It just gives me complete delight. Players that usually I've never even heard of before.

[Genevieve]

I believe I was talking about poker and Greg Fosselman. Raymer.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right.

[Genevieve]

And Chris Moneymaker, which is not a nickname, his actual name. And some of the other poker players with, oh, Texas Dolly, AKA Doyle Brunson.

[Luke Burbank]

But I do think I specifically said, oh, I'd like. I think I somehow turned that into, like. You do that with sports guys a lot, too. And somebody.

[Genevieve]

Vinnie the Microwave Johnson comes to mind. Sure.

[Luke Burbank]

Because he heats things up, you said, right?

[Genevieve]

That's right.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Genevieve]

Detroit Piston.

[Luke Burbank]

But anyway, so our listener rolled. Friend of the show rolled. Sent in some lists of. And this is just some, like, kind of quick list. So I don't have this prepared as an extra actual quiz or anything like this. I'm going to try giving you some of these names and you tell me if you know the nickname. I think some of them are going to be one of these lists even I know the nicknames of, so I'm going to avoid those.

[Genevieve]

I don't know if I corrected this at the time or the day after, but I was wrong about one of those nicknames that I was throwing out recently regarding the Sonics. I think it was when I got that basketball from listener Mike Bubba.

[Luke Burbank]

Basketball.

[Genevieve]

Bubba. Basketball. Give me. Because I'm going to get the basketball ball. I. I think I was calling Sam Perkins Big Paper Daddy, but that was incorrect. Ricky Pierce was Big Paper Daddy because Ricky Pierce had signed a lucrative contract. Oh, Big Paper Daddy. And Sam Perkins was Big Smooth. And I was calling Sam Perkins both Big Smooth and Big Paper Daddy. And that was incorrect. And I want to.

[Luke Burbank]

Pretty embarrassing.

[Genevieve]

I want to apologize to the listeners.

[Luke Burbank]

That was cringing. I was. Yeah, it was.

[Genevieve]

Major cringe.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, so I'm gonna give you some easy ones. First, Frank Thomas.

[Genevieve]

Frank Thomas. Mr. New Genics.

[Luke Burbank]

The Big Hurt.

[Genevieve]

The Big Hurt. Yep.

[Luke Burbank]

The Big Hurt.

[Genevieve]

Yep.

[Luke Burbank]

You know what McGuire and Canseco were called? Bash Brothers, of course. Ortiz. David Ortiz of the Red Sox.

[Genevieve]

Poppy.

[Luke Burbank]

Big Poppy. Now, let's move over to this other list, which I think is going to be maybe a little bit more challenging here. How about.

[Genevieve]

Although.

[Luke Burbank]

Although, it's probably just my own perspective. How about Albert Woods? Albert Woods.

[Genevieve]

Albert Woods.

[Luke Burbank]

And the thing is, I think I've.

[Genevieve]

Ever heard of this person.

[Luke Burbank]

I think you know him only by his nickname. Although I could be wrong.

[Genevieve]

Oh, okay. Albert Woods. Can you tell me the football.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, I. And I had to look this up. I don't know who this person is, but I feel like this is something maybe you've mentioned before. I think he's. I looked this up just moments ago, and I think he played for the Bengals in 88. 91.

[Genevieve]

Icky Woods.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Genevieve]

The Icky Shuffle.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, was that a dance? I take.

[Genevieve]

He had a dance. He would do the Icky Shuffle.

[Luke Burbank]

You want to know something about me? I told Genevieve the other day at A realization I don't like any. Even if it's like a song from the eras that I enjoy. Like oldies. I don't like songs about dances. Don't tell Me how to Twist Again. Like we did any song that's like do the Whatever.

[Genevieve]

Just did it last summer though. It was so fun.

[Luke Burbank]

It was fun. But I don't like songs that tell me how to dance. Dance my own way, which is sitting in this chair watching everybody else dance.

[Genevieve]

Uh huh.

[Luke Burbank]

How about Daryl Johnston? I don't know who that is.

[Genevieve]

Strawberry Moose. Oh, moo. Wait. Oh. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was a fullback. Moose Johnston. He was. Was he a Dallas Cowboy?

[Luke Burbank]

I have to Google each of these on the fly. This is just.

[Genevieve]

He's a commentator now. Sorry.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, okay, gotcha. So Daryl Johnston was Moose.

[Genevieve]

Yep.

[Luke Burbank]

What about Russell Maryland, 1983-1999? I don't know what sport this is.

[Genevieve]

I'll try to google Russell Maryland.

[Luke Burbank]

Let me see here. Russell Maryland was an American former football player.

[Genevieve]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

He played for. It looks like he played for Dallas. Was his main thing. 10 year with Dallas.

[Genevieve]

Russell Maryland, Dallas Cowboy.

[Luke Burbank]

Doesn't ring a bell to you at all?

[Genevieve]

I'm sure when you say it, I'm gonna recommend.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, if we, if we trust Rolled. And you know what?

[Genevieve]

I do, I do. I trust him.

[Luke Burbank]

The kitchen.

[Genevieve]

Oh, the kitchen. Because. Yes. Okay. I remember this because you had William the Refrigerator Perry, who was a Chicago Bear. And the idea was this guy was so big, he was the kitchen, he wasn't the refrigerator. Yeah, he wasn't just the refrigerator, it was the whole kitchen.

[Luke Burbank]

But how do you feel about that when your nickname is a response to somebody else's nickname name? It kind of, you know, it's kind of like.

[Genevieve]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

It's like Pepsi trying to go after Coke. And you're like, can you just do your own thing instead of mentioning the competition.

[Genevieve]

Keep William the Refrigerator Perry's name out of your mouth.

[Luke Burbank]

That's what I'm saying. And it's something that I say a lot, actually. Okay. Oh, it looks like these are divided up by sport. How about NBA? Kevin Garnett.

[Genevieve]

Oh, Kevin Garnett. Oh, shoot. I can tell you the high school he graduated from.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

Garnet in Detroit.

[Luke Burbank]

That's not listed here.

[Genevieve]

That doesn't help. Kevin Garnett's nickname.

[Luke Burbank]

He's the one you were telling me the other day. He's the one in Uncut Gems.

[Genevieve]

He is the one. Uncle Johns. Okay, I bet you when you say it, I am going to be mad at Myself for not remembering. What is Kevin Garnett's nickname?

[Luke Burbank]

The Big Ticket.

[Genevieve]

The Big Ticket. I think, you know, part of it is the rise of Kevin Garnett. I think sort of maps over the demise of the Seattle basketball team. Not to offer that as an excuse, but like, I think Kevin Garnett is not the era of NBA. And someone's going to email and say, look, the Sonics were there for eight years of Kevin Garnett's career. It's very possible. But I just. Kevin Garnett I don't know a lot about.

[Luke Burbank]

So I'm looking at the world did give us the years here. So I'm going to try to keep that in mind. This person played in the NBA from 1999 to 2010. Are you ready for this? And I don't know if I'm saying the name correctly. Rafer Alston.

[Genevieve]

Oh, Rafer Alston. Yes. Rafer Alston was called Skip to My Lou.

[Luke Burbank]

You're absolutely right. Genevieve stole my bell. So I can't go here. There it is.

[Genevieve]

A very interesting story. He was a street ball guy. He was part of the and one streetball tour who was so good that he actually got into the real NBA.

[Luke Burbank]

Let's see here. He was. He was named Skip to My Lou after the American folk song and partner stealing dance with the same name.

[Genevieve]

You know, you don't like those kind of songs, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

Look, I feel like I said partner stealing. Very clear about Lou, because you're. You're changing in the official dance. You're sort of changing your partners. I don't think I realized that about Skip to My Lou.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, Skip to My Lou, my darling.

[Luke Burbank]

So he was associated with the Bucks. Is that right? The Milwaukee Bucks.

[Genevieve]

I think he played for the Bucks. I also thought that he had a. Because he was a street ball guy, I want to say from New York. But I thought he had a kind of. He would sort of skip down the court as he was bringing the ball up. I think that was kind of where he picked up Skip to My Lou How.

[Luke Burbank]

Charles Barkley.

[Genevieve]

Charles Barkley.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a long one.

[Genevieve]

Does not ring a bell. I am not a role model. Because that was his famous commercial, right?

[Luke Burbank]

That's right.

[Genevieve]

Round mound of rebound.

[Luke Burbank]

Right? Exactly right. The round mound of a rebound. Steve Francis. Steve Francis.

[Genevieve]

Stevie Francis. The franchise.

[Luke Burbank]

The franchise. That's a great name. Yeah.

[Genevieve]

He was out of Maryland. He was Steve Franchise. Was he. That kid was man. He could play. He was a Houston Rocket, I believe.

[Luke Burbank]

Here is one. I probably mispronounced But I'll do my best. Is it Damon Studemire?

[Genevieve]

Damon Stoudemire.

[Luke Burbank]

Stoudemire.

[Genevieve]

He was an Arizona Wildcat who played for the famous Portland Jailblazers. That was a period of time where most of the players were in jail. The Jailblazers had a lot of legal trouble. And I. I don't know what Damon Stoudemire's nickname was.

[Luke Burbank]

Mighty Mouse.

[Genevieve]

Oh, Mighty Mouse.

[Luke Burbank]

He was a small guy. Does everything about it.

[Genevieve]

Okay, it does a little bit.

[Luke Burbank]

How about Harold Minor, 92 to 96.

[Genevieve]

This seems probably Harold Minor. Harold Miner. Was he a baseball player?

[Luke Burbank]

No, this is still under NBA. And also the nickname seems problematic. No, the nickname, it goes right to what we were talking about before. About when your nickname is a reference to somebody else in your same sport.

[Genevieve]

Oh, okay. So this is basketball. So he's a reference to. His nickname was a reference to another famous NBA.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Probably the most famous NBA player of all hair. Jordan Baby Jordan. Baby Jordan would be amazing.

[Genevieve]

What was his name again? Harold Miner.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that kind of rings about.

[Genevieve]

When does it say when he was in the league?

[Luke Burbank]

90S.

[Genevieve]

Okay. Okay, baby.

[Luke Burbank]

That.

[Genevieve]

That kind of rings a bell.

[Luke Burbank]

It says drafted by Miami Heat.

[Genevieve]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.

[Luke Burbank]

Gilbert Arenas.

[Genevieve]

Coolidge impression.

[Luke Burbank]

Gilbert Arenas.

[Genevieve]

Gilbert Arenas. Agent Zero.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. And.

[Genevieve]

Or the hibachi.

[Luke Burbank]

Or the hibachi. Look at that. You know them both.

[Genevieve]

Dude, I. I told you.

[Luke Burbank]

Heats things up. But not quite as fast as the microwave.

[Genevieve]

It's more of a kind of low and slow. I told you that I was staying at the Cosmo in Las Vegas. Steep discount. For many years. Because of Agent Zero? Because of Gilbert Arenas. I was once playing baccarat at about five in the morning with Gilbert Arenas. And my theory is that the casino host thought that maybe I was his agent or something. Like, we were hitting it off greatly, me and this guy, Gilbert Arenas, another Arizona Wildcat, by the way. And I think they thought that I was like a friend of his or somebody that should be comped because they comped my entire weekend there and continued to give me free nights at the Cosmo, which is not a cheap hotel, for many years after that, I think because I was in their system. As Gilbert Arenas friend, you were saying.

[Luke Burbank]

You were playing baccarat. Baccarat. There is somebody. This is such a dumb thing to bring up on the show. I should just ask you this off air, but I had a moment a while back. So that little bar that used to be the Mandarin Gate that is now called the Village, unfortunately named the vibe. But I've been stopping by there a little bit more these days and starting to kind of recognize some of the folks there. They're starting to develop a little bit more of a regulars sort of situation there, and it's kind of a nice scene. Veeves and I, when we got back from a party on Saturday, stopped in there and just, like, had a nightcap and had kind of a good time with some of the regulars and stuff, which is always a nice feeling. But I was in there a couple of months ago, and you remember the guy, Oscar, who used to. I don't know if he did karaoke, but he always made the karaoke rounds with everybody.

[Genevieve]

He didn't do karaoke, but he. He always hung out on that side room with that guy Dax.

[Luke Burbank]

Him. See, I don't know Dax, but they're still haunting that place. Like, I love.

[Genevieve]

I love it that it's like, I love. So site specific. It's the. It's the geography for them. It's like whatever bar is in there, like, someday it's going to be a nephrology center where they're just doing dialysis and they'll just be sitting in a side nephrology room.

[Luke Burbank]

And I do think that there's these sort of. Even though those guys might not actually do karaoke, Oscar, doesn't they kind of make the character. Genevieve knows them also from the.

[Genevieve]

What's North 31st Street? Fifth Street.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I was also just thinking, what is the one just up the street on 105th in Greenwood that everybody goes to?

[Genevieve]

Oh, the rickshaw.

[Luke Burbank]

Rickshaw, Yeah. I wanted to say Mandarin Gate. The rickshaw. So anyway, I love that these characters sort of all just sort of like, follow the same sort of circuit. And I just love the community, quasi dirtbaggy though it may be. Love it. But I know Oscar's name because I've met him a couple of times. This is maybe a couple of months ago. He's sitting there with his friend who has this long gray beard. And I had been sitting. I think maybe I had some wings or something. And then I was getting ready to leave, and the bar was pretty empty. And it was just those two guys there. As I was leaving, I'm like, hey, Oscar, I've met you a couple of times. I don't know if you know me. I think you know my girlfriend Genevieve. He's like, oh, yeah, Genevieve, right. And then somehow, and this is as I'm putting my coat on, I just want to say a quick, you know, hello. Slash Good bye to him.

[Genevieve]

Aloha.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm like, oh, yeah, we have. I think we have a lot of friends in common. I'm like, I think, you know, like, Camaro, Kev. He and Genevieve often do, like, karaoke together. He's like, yeah. And then all of a sudden, the. The gray bearded guy, like, popped up. He's like, luke Camaro, Kevin, Luke, like. And he was like. He was very, very excited.

[Genevieve]

Did he ask if I'm working on my book?

[Luke Burbank]

No, he didn't, but he was excited to know that I knew you doing.

[Genevieve]

The book and, like, did.

[Luke Burbank]

Was he a big fan of yours or you guys just bonded or something? He just bonded.

[Genevieve]

Very.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I'm glad to hear he's still.

[Genevieve]

He's still there. That's hilarious that they always. They sort of locked down this side room, right? Is that side room still there?

[Luke Burbank]

It's all. Is more of an open space now, so.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, I see.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

They always, like you said, they were always. They were never doing karaoke, but they were just kind of holding court in this side room. And it was very. Almost like Goodfellas in a way, because we would come in and we would go over into the side room and we would like, you know, say, how's it going? And everything. And then we'd go sit in the bar. Bar and do karaoke and drink. And then as we were leaving, we would go into the side room and say our goodbyes.

[Luke Burbank]

It is amazing. So when Veeves and I were there on Saturday night, and again, this was sort of a nightcap. So we were there a little bit later. I think we're there like 10:30 or something like after. That's not super late, but, you know, it's like. And we roll in and Oscar and his buddy are sitting there at the corner of the bar and we're all sort of talking. Genevieve even had some cookies left over from this party. So I'm sort of like passing cookies around the bar and we start chatting with Oscar a little bit. But I noticed that literally every single person who comes in the bar stops to say hi to Oscar. The women are kissing him on the cheeks and giving him big hugs. The guys are giving him slaps on the back.

[Genevieve]

Powerful Richard Simmons vibe.

[Luke Burbank]

He is the mayor of that place. Place. I love it. So. So. And I finally said to him, like, dude, like, everybody has to, like, show their respects to you before they take.

[Genevieve]

Well, he used to work at the IHOP across for many years. He worked at that ihop. Is it even still there?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yeah. The one in the same. In the same.

[Genevieve]

In the same complex. And then he. But then something went sideways or he wanted a different scenery, so he went up to the 125th Street.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, that's right.

[Genevieve]

Used to work at that place for years.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, yes, yes. The. The Tavern or whatever it is called up there. But I love.

[Genevieve]

I love that. Those gu.

[Luke Burbank]

Still that love Seattle. I love. Weirdly Happy. Yeah, me too. I just love that everybody kind of knows each other. One time I was at the 125th street, and I was talking to the bartender. She was kind of a. She was a woman maybe, I don't know, in her 50s or 60s or something. And I was texting the crew, like, saying, hey, I'm having a. Having a French dip here. It's pretty good. Or whatever. And then everybody's like. Is so and so working. We know her from the. From like karaoke. Like, ask her if the woman is like, if we. If we know her from karaoke. Just like everybody in north. Everybody north of the cut knows everybody. I love even north of that maybe. What, north of 85th street or something like that?

[Genevieve]

Yeah, I'd say it's probably north. I think north of. Definitely north of 80th.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, right.

[Genevieve]

North of 80th and south of 145th.

[Luke Burbank]

It's a. It's pretty sweet.

[Genevieve]

How about the guy that used to make the round? You're talking about that sort of the Bermuda Triangle, if you will, of like the Mandarin Gate, the Rickshaw and the Baranoff.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, the Baranoff.

[Genevieve]

I forget the guy's name, but he used to work at Boeing for many years. And he'd get off of his shift and he would come and he always sang the. The song turn your love around. And he would just go. And you perform it at the mansion gate. And then he'd go up to the rickshaw and perform. And then he'd go over to the Baronoff and perform. And then he'd come back. He. He was like this triangle that he would just do this rotation of singing Turn youn Love around at these different karaoke bars in north Seattle on the.

[Luke Burbank]

Same night doing it. I think he's got a nickname. Two, I want to say.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, the microwave.

[Luke Burbank]

The microwave. All right, let's go back to this list, actually. Good job, by the way, on Gilbert.

[Genevieve]

Sing to my Lou.

[Luke Burbank]

What about Stacy Augman?

[Genevieve]

Oh, the Plastic man, right.

[Luke Burbank]

No, you're absolutely right.

[Genevieve]

He was a UNLV running rebel, it says here.

[Luke Burbank]

UNLV teammate of Larry Johnson, actually.

[Genevieve]

What about Johnson's grandmama.

[Luke Burbank]

Why is Larry Johnson grandmama? That was the next.

[Genevieve]

He had a great story about that which was, was he had signed a contract with Nike. This was a big thing in my youth. The Larry Johnson, he was a Charlotte Hornet in the NBA. And he had these great commercials and they were really kind of. They were great because he was, I get, I don't know, would you call it drag? The character was his grandmother. But Larry Johnson famously had a gold tooth. One of his front teeth was gold. And so it's like imagine just like a 6, 7 dude who's quite hulking and with a golden gold tooth, but who's playing his own grandmother and with a wig and everything. And I recently heard and like a, you know, house code or whatever, house dress. I recently heard him talking about it in that he had signed a contract with Nike coming out of unlv. And it was supposed to be. I forget what the premise of these commercials were supposed to be, but they were very like, let's just say, kind of jock coded. And he shows up to shoot the commercial. Commercial. And they've had a whole change of heart on what the commercial is going to be. I think had something to do with Jordan. And like, literally, like there was something about the. What the commercial they were going to do was somehow impeding on Michael Jordan in, in some way in his branding or his shoe or whatever. So they had come up with this new idea which was, you're gonna be a grandma. Can you imagine being like a 23 year old black man in 1980s American? You show up for the commercial and they're like, you're gonna be a grandma. And he just went for it.

[Luke Burbank]

I remember these. Although I didn't know who any of these people were and I didn't follow basketball at all. Here's a commercial from 1996. He's driving up. It's called Grandma, she's the man. This is 1996. She's driving up in a huge pink limousine, convertible. All the kids are on the block are like chasing the car. It's so cool. License plate is Gmail, mama.

[Genevieve]

They're playing brick house.

[Luke Burbank]

Now he's walking to the gym as grandma. So pickup game, playing basketball in the house dress. Just owning the dominating.

[Genevieve]

I told y'all, stay out of the.

[Luke Burbank]

Lane when granny's driving.

[Genevieve]

I just love that he went, oh.

[Luke Burbank]

It was Converse, by the way, not Nike.

[Genevieve]

Oh, Converse.

[Luke Burbank]

Sorry.

[Genevieve]

Oh, you know what it. I wonder if it was a Larry Bird or. Because Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were both famously Converse, guys. I remember walking through the Northgate Mall when I was a kid and there was like Foot Locker and they had these life size, like cardboard cutout of Larry Johnson, excuse me, of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird back to back. And they were each holding their Converse, which were the same shoe, if I remember, but just different colors. One was for the Celtics and one was for the Lakers. And it said, choose your weapon. And I was like, that is frigging cool.

[Luke Burbank]

There's probably huge shoes too. You could probably literally sit in them and just like get a couple of oars and go down the river. All right, last one on this list. And I think I know you know this because I think I've heard this nickname before. It's so great. Jason Williams is. Oh, White Chocolate indeed, my friend. That guy, I assume he is a white player.

[Genevieve]

He was a white kid who had, as we would say, handles. And it means that you can really dribble the ball really well. Like you could. You like, you're spectacular with your ball handling. It was called hand. And I believe he was kicked out of the University of Florida for repeatedly testing positive for marijuana and then became a Sacramento King. And just he threw a pass in the NBA All Star Game to Rafe La Friends. That still lives in my mind to this day. It's not going to be interesting if I describe it, but I'll try anyway. He's driving the lane, so he's running right down the middle of the court. He's getting close to the hoop. And this guy. So Rafa Friends was not on his team. This was an All Star game, if I remember remember right. And so I forget who Rafael Friends went to Kansas. I forget where he was playing in the NBA. But Jason Williams, AKA White Chocolate, is running in front of this big tall guy, Rafael of Friends. And he goes to throw the ball. Like he's going to throw it behind his back, right? But instead of throwing it behind his back, he moves. I'm going to demonstrate Andrew with a basketball because why else.

[Luke Burbank]

Why do you have.

[Genevieve]

You know what?

[Luke Burbank]

I'm going to use the Sonics ball.

[Genevieve]

The ball does not have a lot of air in it.

[Luke Burbank]

If you just notice the collector's item that listener Mike sent you.

[Genevieve]

Oh, no, you know, I've got my other one.

[Luke Burbank]

I'll do that. Yeah, let's. Let's not disrespect the.

[Genevieve]

The signed communication investigation. Okay? So I'm gonna be. I'm being Jason Williams here. And. And imagine there's Rayful of Friends is running right here, okay? I'm imagining Rafael of Friends is where my two Daytime Emmys are.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, okay. Is. Is the Friends wearing like a. Like some sort of a French hat? Like a beret?

[Genevieve]

I mean, the funny part is, is he went to Kansas. I don't know where he's from, but yeah, it sounds like he rode there on a. On a bicycle. With a baguette.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Genevieve]

Tied to the rack.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, so he's got a beret and.

[Genevieve]

A baguette and he's chasing Frenchiest sounding guy who I don't know has ever been to France. So you got Jason Williams, White Chocolate is driving the lane in the NBA All Star game. Rafa Friends, the Francophile named Rafa Friends is behind him. And what Jason Williams does is he goes to throw the ball like this. Like he's going to throw it behind his back. Okay, so this chair now. God, this is bad podcast this.

[Luke Burbank]

Really awful.

[Genevieve]

It's terrible. I apologize. So he's. He goes like, he's going to throw it to this chair like this, right behind his back, behind the back to a guy over here. But instead he moves his elbow. White Chocolate does. And he bounces the ball back the opposite way, shoots it back into his two RA friend. So he does this.

[Luke Burbank]

He goes, who's his teammate in this?

[Genevieve]

In the All Star game.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Genevieve]

So everyone thinks the ball's going this way.

[Luke Burbank]

He does a pass by bouncing it off of his own elbow behind his back.

[Genevieve]

Back to Rafe Lafrince, who I want to say misses the layup. But it was still the, like, you know, being a. You know, I don't know what, I was probably 17 year old Luke Burbank or something. It was everything to me that this move. And one other thing about Jason Williams, if I remember right, I believe he was the high school quarterback to Randy Moss.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow.

[Genevieve]

I think he played high school football with Randy Moss, who we were mentioning the other day was also the punter on that team.

[Luke Burbank]

When I think about these high school athletes, like so many of them are like, well, I could have played basketball, baseball or football. And now I'm the quarterback of, you know, and it's like, dang. All right, listen, I want to do a. So that was all the ending in West Virginia. I really.

[Genevieve]

They were, they were both high school teammates in West Virginia.

[Luke Burbank]

I realized I sort of did this out of order in the way that Roald sent this. He did break it down by MLB and NFL. But I'm going to do a lightning round here. I'm going to skip the ones that, like we already said, David Ortiz, Radney.

[Genevieve]

You don't want any more reenactments for me of Jason Williams career?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I just don't want it.

[Genevieve]

You know, there were two Jason Williams in the NBA, and one of them unfortunately shot his limo driver and went to jail. I am here to honor the other Jason Williams.

[Luke Burbank]

Good. In the spirit of Lightning round, I will move on from that. Okay, okay. So obviously we know Randy Johnson is the big unit. What about Fred McGriff, the crime.

[Genevieve]

The crime dog?

[Luke Burbank]

So good. So good.

[Genevieve]

So he was a. He was a. He was a San Diego Padre.

[Luke Burbank]

I believe this one. I think we know, although I'm not sure. Ricky Henderson.

[Genevieve]

Ricky Henderson. RIP I've told this story before. I was once in line at the media entrance to the Kingdom. Shit talking Ricky Henderson to a woman I later learned was Ricky Henderson's wife.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, he seems like somebody who would like just sort of let that kind of thing go.

[Genevieve]

Ricky Henderson doesn't like you talking shit to his wife. Ricky Henderson. I don't know what his nickname was.

[Luke Burbank]

What's his. What is he most famous for?

[Genevieve]

Stealing bases.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. He's the man of steel.

[Genevieve]

Oh, I don't know. I.

[Luke Burbank]

That didn't.

[Genevieve]

What about Dave Henderson, former Mariner and New York Yankee who was known as Hindu?

[Luke Burbank]

Ooh, that's not probably inappropriate. I don't think. Ken Griffey Jr. The kid. Kid. Ozzy Smith, the.

[Genevieve]

Hold on. It's magical. He was the magician.

[Luke Burbank]

Let's just say that you are also one of these. Now you are right.

[Genevieve]

Absent father to my cat and daughter.

[Luke Burbank]

No, you are one of these things. When you travel, you talk about your status.

[Genevieve]

The Wizard.

[Luke Burbank]

The Wizard. Ozzie Smith.

[Genevieve]

Ozzie Smith, the Wizard. He was a short shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, I believe.

[Luke Burbank]

And of course, we all know Jay Buhner is the bone. Tell him the bone sent Deion Sanders prime time. What about Jerome Bettis? This is the all NFL now.

[Genevieve]

Let's hold on. Geez Louise, you're killing me, Larry. And tell him the phone sent you. Who was it again?

[Luke Burbank]

Jerome Bettis. Jerome 2005.

[Genevieve]

He was the bus. The bus. That. That one haunts me because when the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Seattle Seahawks in the super bowl in Detroit, Jerome Bettis was from Detroit. And nobody would stop talking about the fact that Jerome Bettis was getting to play in his hometown. And I feel like on some level that's part of why the Seahawks lost to the Pittsburgh Shielders. That and the officiating.

[Luke Burbank]

And the officiating. Okay, I'm just going to do a couple more of my favorites here and then I'm going to choose the last three here. I know you've said this before, but I think this is a good one. Reggie White was.

[Genevieve]

Reggie White was the Minister of Defense. Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

That's a good nickname.

[Genevieve]

Rip.

[Luke Burbank]

I'll give you two more of these. How about. And I think this is amazing. Andre Risen.

[Genevieve]

Andre Risen was. He was an Atlanta Falcon and he was. He was a very, very highly regarded player out of college who I think was decent in the pros. He was a quarterback, but didn't really live up to his supposed potential. Andre Risen. I don't remember.

[Luke Burbank]

What was his nickname according to this list? Bad Moon. Bad Moon Rising. Bad Moon Rising. That is so.

[Genevieve]

I wonder if that. I wonder if that wasn't a Chris Bermanism. Chris Berman, in the early days of espn, he of course would bestow these nicknames on everyone. Like there was a baseball player named Jim Deshayes and he would call him Jim. Two silhouettes on Deshays.

[Luke Burbank]

Rolls off the tongue.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, you got a long climb for a short slide there. But Bad Moon Risen sounds like a Chris Bermanism.

[Luke Burbank]

And the final one off this list that I will share with you. I think I might have heard you mention this before, although I'm not sure and forgive my pronunciation if I mess this up, but Christian Okoye.

[Genevieve]

Oh, the Nigerian nightmare.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly, the Nigerian nightmare.

[Genevieve]

I do not think he played high school football. I believe he was in college and like wandered over to the field and they were like, you seem sturdily built.

[Luke Burbank]

And ironically born and raised in Canada. No, just joking. Oh, I just made that part.

[Genevieve]

Christian Okoye really, really did some damage to the Seahawks because that was Andrew back when the Seahawks were in the AFC west, which I believe also included the Kansas City Chiefs at the time. It was a weird time in America. The Seahawks were in the AFC west with the Denver Broncos, the I believe at the time, Oakland Raiders, and I want to say the Kansas City chief. The Kansas City Chiefs once, Derek Thomas, who was a defensive lineman for them, once sacked, I believe, sacked Dave Craig, I believe seven times, the Seahawks quarterback in the same game in order to, at that time set the record for most sacks in one game. And it was on his eighth sack with no time left on the clock that Dave Mudbone Craig shirked Derek Thomas off of him and threw a touchdown to Paul Scansy and the Seahawks won the game. And I was sitting in our Dodge Dart outside of Gospel Outreach Christian Fellowship listening on the AM radio, listening To Pete Gross, call the game. And it was, to this day, one of the high points of my life.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you try to recreate it on a tech mobile? I know you weren't as much.

[Genevieve]

I recreated it in my basement. I had a whole pretend football situation. Like it was where, you know, there was like a table, like a folding table with heaps of laundry on it at all times. And I would rest the ball on there like it was being handed off to me. So I would set up in the backfield. I would listen to Monday Night Football, to the radio broadcast of Monday Night Football, which was like, Hank Schramm and I forget who else. And I would listen to the game and I would try to reenact the plays with this football and myself.

[Luke Burbank]

Is that any relation to Schramm, the famous broadcaster in Seattle?

[Genevieve]

I don't think so. Okay, I don't think so.

[Luke Burbank]

Blanking on his name now, but Ken Schramm again, rest in peace.

[Genevieve]

Every name that we say at some point will be all right.

[Luke Burbank]

Especially the longer we do this show. And I don't even mean the podcast. I mean this episode. Yeah.

[Genevieve]

What time is it? I'm so. I apologize.

[Luke Burbank]

Hour 30. Well, the thing is, we've turned in like an hour 50 yesterday, an hour 30 today. I think we can do 10 minutes tomorrow, do an intro. Hello, goodbye.

[Genevieve]

Two dazzling donors. And we're done.

[Luke Burbank]

Two dazzling donors. Say hello to Oscar on the way in, on the way out. That's all we got to do. Shut up.

[Genevieve]

Exactly. Hey, thank you, Roald, for sending that.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that was a lot. I love that. I love hearing you talk about the sports memories.

[Genevieve]

Irony. I don't know if it's. I don't know if it's irony. The interesting thing is I think I would be so much worse at like the sort of current era players of any sport. I also wonder, do we even have nicknames anymore? Like, I mean, Flash Gordon.

[Luke Burbank]

I.

[Genevieve]

Him, which I believe.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, well, and now it's Strange Gordon. Now he's right his name. But.

[Genevieve]

Well, there was a Tom Gordon who was a pitcher for the Royals before him, was also called Flash.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know. You know, that was out of rolls list was another Flash, who was apparently Dee's father. I wonder if that's the.

[Genevieve]

Is D. Gordon Tom Flash Gordon's kid.

[Luke Burbank]

Let me go back to Rhodes, the Kansas City Royal. The very first. The very first one on this list that I did not even name was Tom Gordon Unlimited, who was known as Flash. And it says father of D. I.

[Genevieve]

How did I Not put that together that D. Gordon's dad was. I had I still somewhere in my house have Tom Flash Gordon baseball cards.

[Luke Burbank]

Really?

[Genevieve]

As a Kansas City royal. Yeah, he was a. He was. Oh, you know, another good one. Next time you're making the list Rolled.

[Luke Burbank]

Next time.

[Genevieve]

Dennis Oil Can Boyd, who was a pitcher for the. The Boston Red Sox. Oil Can.

[Luke Burbank]

Oil.

[Genevieve]

I feel like in the olden days. And by the way, he was only referred to as Oil Can I like we really. We really don't have good like it. Like, does fraking Matt Brash have a nickname?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't think so. Are we gonna see him this early in the season?

[Genevieve]

By the way, hurt again.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm look, no, I think he's still crawling out of that injury, but I think that I. I think he might be pitching for us. Relieving for us this season. I'm looking at ML Play MLB players 2025. The music is playing. We can't do this now. The password is somebody named John Garcia. I think I said that wrong, but I don't know any of these players.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, I feel like we don't. We're really under delivering in the nick. I blame video games. I blame our phones, and I blame video games.

[Luke Burbank]

As our very own Colt Emerson has a nickname, but oh, Chad, what a terrible nickname. Colt Emerson known as Chad. That's no offense to Chads. Her name is Colt.

[Genevieve]

It's no Jim. Two silhouettes on dashes.

[Luke Burbank]

Anyway, we're gonna run out of music here.

[Genevieve]

Okay, thanks, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow. In the meantime, please remember, don't mount too tall.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, good luck to you all.

[Andrew Walsh]

These are nicknames for your friend named Luke. Lukele. Luke's of Hazzard. Assalamu alaik Lukem Cindy. Luke who? Leukemia Fruit Lukes. Ooh, Luke, what you made me do. Spooky Luki Fluke Count Luku. Righty tighty Lefty Luki. How many Lukes to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Good Luke charm. I got a gluk in my rari. The Luke Ness monster for Luko Lukos intolerant. I Luke it. I louve it. I want some more. Oove it.

[Luke Burbank]

Power out.