#4413 Delayed Dadification

Summary

TBTL Podcast Episode #4413: "Delayed Dadification"
Released on February 28, 2025

Hosts: Luke Burbank & Andrew Walsh
Guest: Genevieve
Duration: Approximately 76 minutes
Location: Madrona Hill Studio, Seattle

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1. Opening Banter: The Quest for the Perfect Egg Bite [00:00 - 02:44]

The episode kicks off with Luke Burbank humorously sharing his failed attempt at creating the "perfect egg bite," prompting playful reactions from Andrew Walsh and guest Genevieve. This light-hearted exchange sets a casual and comedic tone for the show.

Notable Quote:

• Luke Burbank [00:00]: "Sorry. Broke the egg yolk. I almost had it."

2. Exploring the Concept of "Dad Bands" [04:17 - 07:36]

The conversation shifts to the topic of "dad bands," with Genevieve probing whether this term genuinely resonates or merely serves as bad branding. Andrew expresses his skepticism, feeling that labeling bands as "dad bands" lowers expectations and dissuades him from engaging with them.

Notable Quotes:

• Andrew Walsh [04:57]: "I think it's bad branding. I think what people are doing when they say that is they're lowering... it's lowering it for me so much that I'm not interested."
• Genevieve [05:06]: "That's like, they were pretty good. I saw them play once, and I was impressed."

3. The Chipmunks Music Quiz and Technical Hiccups [07:36 - 25:10]

Genevieve introduces an entertaining segment where she plays sped-up versions of songs from "Chipmunks A Go Go," challenging Andrew to identify them before the lyrics begin. Despite technical difficulties with audio quality—resulting in only one audio channel being heard—the hosts navigate the quiz with humor and camaraderie.

Notable Quotes:

• Genevieve [08:19]: "This isn't an easy quiz at all. And maybe I'll let a little bit of it run. But I don't want them to actually sing."
• Andrew Walsh [13:39]: "This is the opposite of Tom Jones throwing my underwear at the Chipmunks."

The segment showcases their deep love for music, memories associated with songs, and the occasional frustration with technical challenges, all delivered with their signature humor.

4. Personal Stories: Coachella Memories and Lawn Mower Troubles [55:00 - 74:00]

Coachella Experience: Genevieve recounts her experiences attending various Coachella festivals, highlighting memorable performances by bands like The Cure and The Flaming Lips. She shares anecdotes about the oppressive heat, unique stage setups, and personal reflections on why large music festivals aren't her preferred lifestyle.

Notable Quotes:

• Genevieve [44:52]: "There are so many tents that are literally covered in dust. It's like a Martian landscape."
• Andrew Walsh [51:11]: "Paul, thank you so much for supporting the show."

Lawn Mower Repair: Transitioning to a more practical topic, Genevieve discusses the challenges with her Ryobi riding lawnmower blades. After discovering bent and corroded blades, she delves into her repair process, emphasizing the importance of proper tools and techniques over her initial misguided plan to simply hammer them straight.

Notable Quotes:

• Genevieve [70:07]: "Don't bang on it with a hammer. That's exactly my plan."
• Andrew Walsh [72:27]: "I can't tell you that because I just went to my computer to Google it."

5. Donor Spotlight: Paul Pope's Message [38:00 - 55:00]

A heartfelt segment dedicated to Paul Pope, the longest-running donor of the show. Paul shares his struggles, including a broken ankle and surgery recovery, juxtaposed with his unwavering support for TBTL. The hosts express their gratitude, weaving in humor and empathy to acknowledge Paul's contributions and resilience.

Notable Quotes:

• Paul Pope [53:15]: "I'm recovering from surgery and I'll be off my foot for at least the next month."
• Genevieve [54:23]: "Paul says that Luke, Andrew, John, and Tens as I sit here listening to episode 4387."

This segment underscores the community aspect of the podcast, highlighting listener support and personal connections.

6. Concluding Remarks: Balancing Life and Self-Care [74:00 - End]

As the episode nears its end, the hosts discuss balancing work and personal life, emphasizing the importance of self-care amidst hectic schedules. Genevieve shares her plans to enjoy the beautiful weather by mowing the lawn and perhaps grilling, while Andrew contemplates attending a Seattle Miniature Show. Their conversation reinforces the show's theme of navigating life's chaos with humor and friendship.

Notable Quotes:

• Genevieve [66:44]: "It's about self-care. It's about work, life balance."
• Andrew Walsh [74:37]: "I'm thinking if I'm not gonna sit here and do that newsletter, I can put on a pair of like old thicker shoes so my footsies don't get wet and pull out the hose."

The episode wraps up with the usual humorous sign-off, reminding listeners of the enduring bond between the hosts and their audience.

Notable Quote:

• Genevieve [76:46]: "Thanks for listening everybody. We'll be back here on Monday with more imaginary radio."

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Key Takeaways:

• Humor and Camaraderie: The hosts and guest maintain a light-hearted and humorous atmosphere throughout, making complex or mundane topics engaging.

• Listener Connection: The donor spotlight emphasizes the podcast's community and the personal connections it fosters.

• Balancing Content: From music quizzes to personal anecdotes about festivals and lawn mowers, the episode showcases a diverse range of topics, reflecting the show's eclectic nature.

• Technical Challenges: The hosts navigate and joke about technical difficulties, adding authenticity and relatability to the episode.

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Whether you're a long-time listener or new to TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live, Episode #4413 "Delayed Dadification" offers a blend of humor, personal stories, and engaging discussions that exemplify the show's charm and the hosts' enduring friendship.

Transcript

[Luke Burbank]

Sorry. Broke the egg yolk. I almost had it.

[Andrew Walsh]

I had what?

[Luke Burbank]

The perfect egg bite.

[Andrew Walsh]

Enough with the perfect egg bite.

[Genevieve]

What's the perfect egg bite?

[Luke Burbank]

It's everything on your breakfast plate in one perfect bite.

[Genevieve]

That sounds great. How do you do that?

[Luke Burbank]

I could take you through it if you want to see it. All right, well, first, you start with a piece of rye toast. It's got to be nice and dense so it can handle all the weight. So you take the toast and you put some butter on it. Now, you got to make sure that you don't put too, because it's gotta melt into the toast. Next thing after that is half a container of purple jelly.

[Genevieve]

Okay, you mean grape?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I guess that's grape. Put that on there really nice. And then here's the melsky secret hash browns. It both keeps it separate, yet somehow unifies it into one cohesive structure. After the hash browns, it's time for the ketchup. I put it on in a W for waza. That's right. And it's also the most efficient way to distribute the ketchup. So each bite has a little bit of it in it. Now, this is the perfect combination of flavors, but it's incomplete. It's time for the crown jewel, the over easy Sunny side up egg. Put the over easy egg on it so that the yolk is facing the corner. Now, the trick of getting the perfect egg bite is getting all the flavors and the unbroken yolk into your mouth, because if it's broken, it's ruined. If we've done our, we're gonna have a pretty good egg bite. I love you, babe. Here we go.

[Andrew Walsh]

Calm down.

[Genevieve]

No, don't laugh. This isn't funny, okay? It is serious to him. He is trying.

[Luke Burbank]

I need a win.

[Andrew Walsh]

Tbtl.

[Luke Burbank]

GU day it is.

[Andrew Walsh]

Guess what day it is. It's Friday. Friday. Gonna get down on Friday.

[Genevieve]

Everybody's looking forward to the weekend back here live at the Waterfront Village with my friend the zombie, Jonathan. You're looking good, Jonathan. Just got an awesome face paint job. What do you think?

[Andrew Walsh]

I like turtles.

[Genevieve]

What you think I'm dressed to talk.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm dressed to party hardy like an MC Scat cat. I like to rotate until the pain spreads, and it's more of a numb, numb everywhere kind of thing.

[Genevieve]

Okay, time for some serious crunching.

[Andrew Walsh]

And boom goes the dynamite.

[Genevieve]

Well, all right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Friday edition of tbtl, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. It's a ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's that Woo Woo.

[Genevieve]

Coming to you from the Madrona Hill Studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia, where it's a beautiful Friday. Oh, my pa. It's just beautiful. Blue skies. In fact, there's going to be a planetary parade tonight, which I am getting very excited about. I'm also very excited to be sharing episode 4413 in a collector series with all of you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let the fun begin.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, the weather is going to be phenomenal today.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh la la.

[Genevieve]

That's got a young man's thoughts turning towards the idea of lawn mowing. And I discovered something about my Ryobi electric riding lawnmower today, and that is that the blades on it are jacked up and I'm gonna have to get. I'm gonna have to go like blacksmith on it trying to fix these blades. So I was on YouTube this morning studying how to straighten out Ryobi riding lawnmower blades. I'm learning we may run into a lot of lawnmower talk today on the show. Is this a thing people care about? No, I make no apologies. Something people probably do care about was the life and times and acting prowess of Gene Hackman.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, it's just living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

[Genevieve]

So we'll talk about Gene Hackman a little bit as well today and we'll say hello to this guy, the longest running cobro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He is asked to be introduced in a new fashion here on this Friday. So I guess we have no choice but to honor his request. He's Andrew Walsh and he's joining me right now. Good morning, Mr. Tambourine Man.

[Andrew Walsh]

Someone got a copy of my dad Band's demo. How do you feel about the term dad band, by the way? It's been bandied about quite a bit lately.

[Genevieve]

I'm good with it. I mean, dad band being a band that plays music that dads tend to like, be it Wilco or the national or things like that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think so. I think it's more like dads who are in like a garage get together and play. Yeah, I just, I feel like I had never really heard that term until like five years ago. And then, oh, my friend's dad. My friend's dad band is playing. You know, we have friends who are always playing the Eagles and I, they're like mouse rat or something like that, but they're not mouse rapid.

[Genevieve]

That's like, they were pretty good, by the way. I saw them play once, and I was impressed.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, they do cover songs and they get the crowd into it and everything, but there's something about calling it a dad band that makes me dismiss it right away. I think it's bad branding. I think what people are doing when they say that is they're lowering. They're doing what I do in almost every situation in my life, which is lowering people's expectations.

[Genevieve]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

But unfortunately, it lowers it for me so much that I'm not interested.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

It worked because it's not Rat Crunch.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

It might be.

[Genevieve]

Anyway, it worked perfectly on me because I remember hearing, oh, that somebody's, you know, basically a band that is kind of an excuse for some guys in their 40s to get together and drink a couple beers and play some, you know, three chords in the truth.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

Like, they're playing the Eagles. And so my expectations were basically set at about that point. And then I was impressed. I remember leaning over to somebody. It could have been Veeves or you or Camaro Kevin, saying, hey, these guys are pretty good.

[Andrew Walsh]

They are pretty good. Yep.

[Genevieve]

In that sense, I do think it worked. Now, I guess what you're saying is it works too well on you to the point where you then stay home and play darts under the COVID of darkness while everyone else is at the Eagles watching the dad bands.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I was there there.

[Genevieve]

You were there that time. But I'm saying you may not go back. Right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I mean, I don't. No, I wouldn't put that fine a point on it. My point is just. I just think it's bad branding. I think it's just not exactly. I don't know, it just. You're right up front saying, we're not serious about this. And so therefore it may. It just sort of turns me off a little bit.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

I want you to do it now. Can you give it to me now? Whatever it is, I'm in.

[Genevieve]

And I want to know so much lawnmower talk to talk about.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm not good with delayed gratification, which is, by the way, the name.

[Genevieve]

True.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's my band name. By the way, Delayed Dadification.

[Genevieve]

Delayed Dadification. That's a show title I don't have. Listen, I mean, we could just try to do it right now, but it is absolutely gonna. First of all, it may turn this into a four hour show because I really do wanna. I have photos. I'm really excited to talk lawnmowers with you today.

[Andrew Walsh]

All right. I am excited about the premise of this.

[Genevieve]

Let's do it.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

It's just. We're just gonna do it.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

What is not questions. It's an audio quiz and it's me just playing. So I wanted to surprise you with a little audio from our friends Alvin and the Chipmunks.

[Andrew Walsh]

How is that worse?

[Genevieve]

I don't know. I don't know. It's worse, though.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did you run it through a transistor.

[Genevieve]

Radio and hold your phone? That's right off of 1965's Chipmunk a Go Go. Yeah, when I went to. So I was googling Tambourine Man Chipmunks. And I ended up. Somebody had reposted that song or posted that song on YouTube. And they were clearly a big chipmunk fan. And they said something. I'm paraphrasing here, underneath. The person who had posted it said something like, this is my favorite track off of Chipmunk A Go Go. Which was really challenging for the Chipmunks because of the style of music they were trying to cover. In other words, the person was nodding to the fact that there's something about 60s protest music that does not lend itself to being sped up. Like there is some stuff that, you know, maybe works when you chip Monkify it. But this was a tough era on them. And so then that led me to go, well, what else is on old Chipmunkagogo? And I'm now at Chipmunkagogo. And what I wanted to do was just try to play a few of the songs and see if you could name before it gets to the lyrics, what the song is off of Chipmunkagogo. And I think as a person who loves music as cool today as it was back then, AKA Kixie, I think you might be well positioned for this because this is stuff that. This is original music that's from the era that you tend to really enjoy.

[Andrew Walsh]

I've been using my Kixie Chapstick all week, by the way. My lips have been very dry during these late winter months. And I have A whole drawer full of chapstick. And I grabbed one and I realized, oh, I'm using my Kixie branded chapstick. Lips as moist now as they were then. Sorry. Okay, that's funny.

[Genevieve]

They canceled that bit of promotion.

[Andrew Walsh]

So the funny thing here is I'm not even gonna hear them sing. So it's just gonna be like, whatever weird simplification of these songs of the musical parts of the song.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. You have a worse version of this.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

The point is, you're on spot. You're playing this off a Spotify.

[Genevieve]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no. That's just astounding to me because. Yeah, that doesn't sound like the one that we played the other day off of YouTube. Anyway, go ahead, go ahead.

[Genevieve]

Well, we'll have to. That's it. Now they're singing. So you would have had.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now, I know that. That is. That is Mr.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

I think so.

[Genevieve]

Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now. And I would love that they play their own instruments. This is important for me.

[Genevieve]

It was. No, it was all Mike Nesmith.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really? Okay. Okay, that's interesting. All right.

[Genevieve]

Yeah. Little known fact, when he wasn't writing head, he was playing all. He was the. He was the. Like the. Oh, who were the. He was the Wrecking Crew of music.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Genevieve]

Go to.

[Andrew Walsh]

Were they the. Were they the horn section? The Wrecking Crew. The horn section. Or am I confusing them with some.

[Genevieve]

I think the Wrecking Crew was just the guys in Muscle Shoals who were like the Go to session band for all kinds of. Yeah, I think that they played a bunch of different instruments. Although I. You know, there's a whole documentary about them that I clearly haven't seen. Okay, so now here, let's just start off with this song. This is the second track off of Chipmunks A Go Go. It's. It has 24,000 plays, which puts it in the. I think that in the, like, solidly in the mid range of the popular songs off of this album. Okay. In fact, I'd say this puts it in the upper third in terms of most plays. You'll be surprised when we get to the song that is the most played on Chipmunks A Go Go. It's not Tambourine man, for the record.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is it Jennifer Juniper by Donovan?

[Genevieve]

No, but I'm gonna give you a hint. I think there might be a Donovan song on here. Well, no, there's a song that, when I first saw it, I was like, is that Donovan? And I said it with that exact tone of voice. Like, is that some Donovan shit? Okay, we're going to start with. We're going to start with a song that. That is the second track. Well, you know what? Forget it. We're going to start with the first track. I'm going to give you a slight hint, which is. This song to me has a certain kind of. What's the word I'm looking for? It's a bit of a novelty song to me. It's not a novelty song. It's from a. It's from a very popular at the time, I believe, Welsh singer who had a lot of hits, but his hits always seem to have a sort of a certain sheen of novelty on them, if that makes any sense.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Genevieve]

Okay, so here we go off of Chipmunk A Go Go. This is the first track. This one has 43, 000 plays, which puts it in the top three of the tracks off of this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, she really, really got me. My head.

[Genevieve]

I think I'm gonna. I think Welsh. I think Welsh. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. What's. What's up, pussy cat? What's up, pussy cat? What's up, wolf?

[Genevieve]

What's new, pussy cat?

[Andrew Walsh]

New pussycat?

[Genevieve]

Tom Jones.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is the opposite of Tom Jones.

[Genevieve]

Is this obviously going to just become the show?

[Andrew Walsh]

This is the opposite of Tom Jones throwing my. Throwing my underwear at the Chipmunks. And it doesn't feel right.

[Genevieve]

And honestly, one pair has covered all three of them. They're fighting for oxygen.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm so sorry.

[Genevieve]

This is physically, physically dangerous to the Chipmunks to be caught under an average sized panty.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. I'm glad to know that I have a fighting chance here.

[Genevieve]

I mean, that's. I'm impressed. I'm impressed. Okay, this one is a little bit more. I. I know this song, but I couldn't tell you who is the singer of it originally. It's. But it's. It's. Yeah. It's. It's from this era. It's the second track on Chipmunks A Go Go. And it sounds like this.

[Andrew Walsh]

No. Oh, no.

[Genevieve]

We can back it up.

[Andrew Walsh]

I guess it wasn't even. I was waiting for something to drop. That would sound more familiar. That doesn't even. That doesn't even sound familiar.

[Genevieve]

You'll. You'll. I don't think that. I don't think that they come right in with the chorus. So let's. I'm gonna let it go a little bit into the lyrics. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Dangerous Game I. Now I do feel like I know the song, but I still buy.

[Genevieve]

How do we finish that?

[Andrew Walsh]

Is that what it was? Who wants to buy?

[Genevieve]

Yeah, Andrew, come on. Do you have ears?

[Andrew Walsh]

Who wants to buy? I think I gotta give up. Let it roll.

[Genevieve]

Do what you buy. This diamond ring.

[Andrew Walsh]

She took it off her finger now it doesn't mean a.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Anymore oh, this diamond ring oh, yeah, it's a good. So you got someone who's not.

[Genevieve]

I think that one works pretty well, actually.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know what I mean? You're right. That translates into the Monka verse very well.

[Genevieve]

I. I Enter the Monkey.

[Andrew Walsh]

I do know that song. And actually I do like that song, but I can't tell you anything about it. I can't even really tell in either version, the Chipmunks or the original. Unless the Chipmunks were the original. What the lyrics are. What do they say at the end of the chorus there?

[Genevieve]

This Diamond Ring lyrics. That's how you spell lyrics.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is going to take us. You're right. We got to get to your lawnmower.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, it was Gary Lewis and the Playboys. What a great name. I think the idea is that Burns, his favorite man.

[Genevieve]

Gary Lewis. I'll go on the Radiola and play with Gary Lewis and his Playboys. I believe the premise of the song is you've been. The diamond ring has been returned to Gary Lewis and. Or the Playboys. And now he has no use for it. So maybe somebody else can use this diamond ring is the idea.

[Andrew Walsh]

Diamond ring for sale. Never used in the 60s.

[Genevieve]

One of the shortest and most hard hitting stories of all time. Okay, then we've got Mr. Tambourine Man. Now we've got the Song and this I'll mention has the lowest number of spins on the entire record on Spotify, only 2000. Think about this, Andrew. In the history of the world, there's been only 20, 27 other times someone has hit play on this.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is pretty astounding. I don't even know what it is, but it's pretty astounding because you got, you know, you got the names behind it. The Chipmunks, you know, Elvin Ago, Theodore. Go Go do do do do do.

[Genevieve]

And this is. I'll also tell you, I don't want to throw you off, but this was the song that I thought. Is this a Donovan number?

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Genevieve]

It doesn't mean that it is a Donovan number. Okay, you follow? Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Which means that I could be a Peter Noon song.

[Genevieve]

It could be a bunch of other things, but it just seemed like. It seemed like a weird ass song Donovan would be into. Slash would have written. So here we go. Off of Chipmunks A go Go. This is track number four. I don't know what's going on.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, you know what? Yeah. Something's going on with your setup. We're only hearing one side of the.

[Genevieve]

Why would. That we can't diagnose.

[Andrew Walsh]

We can't figure it out now. But it has something to do with your wiring. I think I know.

[Genevieve]

Which is why all of these. Hold on, I can do this.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's why the first one sounded a little echoey because I was hearing the echo of probably the other. The stereo track.

[Genevieve]

How this. We. We should eventually.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm giving myself a point for that. I knew something was off.

[Genevieve]

Okay, now I'm going to play this same track. In fact, you know what? I could. I could probably play all these off of YouTube. Although that original little intro I. I brought you in with was also off of YouTube. Which you said sounded tinny to you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, it did. Yeah.

[Genevieve]

But I don't know why.

[Andrew Walsh]

Something about why it would be that.

[Genevieve]

My system does not like. I guess it's stereo. Yeah, like this would be mono. Right?

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, I. They probably recorded this in stereo, the Chipmunks. I mean specifically, they went in there with a little cartoon producer recorded in stereo. Yeah. And I think you have a setup where we're only hearing left or right.

[Genevieve]

Gotta figure out at some point maybe you can talk me through it. Okay, I'm gonna try this again. This is off of YouTube now. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

So I don't, I, I don't know if that will improve the audio quality.

[Andrew Walsh]

Somebody mixed it down.

[Genevieve]

I'm gonna give It a try here. Okay, now it's the same problem.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. Wow.

[Genevieve]

Do they have a mono. This is such a sad thing. Because it's such a build up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And I can't quiz myself. I'll go blind. I really.

[Genevieve]

After all this. Is there a setting. Is there a setting in Spotify that mono ifies what I'm trying to do here?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think so. Although it'd be amazing if they re released this as a mono album as well. So you could choose for your hi fi which one you want.

[Genevieve]

Okay. I know this is gonna be really annoying. I'm just gonna have to play it through.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like. Just play it through your phone through the. Oh. Microphone.

[Genevieve]

Oh, yeah. I didn't even think of that. Sure.

[Andrew Walsh]

Why not try that? You know it's gonna be.

[Genevieve]

I mean, you know, I've also. Well, you know, it's kind of funny. Yeah, yeah. This will work. I'm gonna try this. Okay. Oh my God. It's so freaking integrated. It's already on my phone right now, Andrew.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah.

[Genevieve]

Because I've been trying to play it on Spotify.

[Andrew Walsh]

I do kind of like that.

[Genevieve]

Winning. Okay, here we go. You ready?

[Andrew Walsh]

I am so excited.

[Genevieve]

Okay, this is. I guess you're gonna get both channels, but you're gonna get them from my cell phone.

[Andrew Walsh]

Don't let me see the screen. Don't let me see the screen.

[Genevieve]

Wait, what is going on? Why is my phone also doing that?

[Andrew Walsh]

But you heard this track recently. Like it last night or something? Because you said you heard it and you thought it might be.

[Genevieve]

No, I just read the name and thought, oh, okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

With it. Maybe it was just taking.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh. Sometimes. Yeah. Your phone becomes a remote control for.

[Genevieve]

Okay. Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, that is. That's. I already guessed it and I got it right. I just heard that it is Peter Noon. That's hermits. Hermits. Mrs. Brown, you got a lovely daughter.

[Genevieve]

How did you.

[Andrew Walsh]

I said Peter. That from when you said before Donovan. You said. I said, oh, it's probably Peter Noon. And it is Peter Noon. That's how it begins. Yeah. Mrs. Brown, you've got to love me daughter. I loved this song as a kid.

[Genevieve]

It also works pretty well, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

It does. Pretty. Yeah. No, I could hear that very well. But I mean.

[Genevieve]

I mean. I mean as a chipmunk.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah.

[Genevieve]

Enter the monkey verse.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Yeah, I think Peter Noon, unless he died recently.

[Genevieve]

Wow.

[Andrew Walsh]

I believe still has a. Like a show on satellite radio.

[Genevieve]

Nice.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Genevieve]

Well, I have to say, like, we are. We are. I gotta say, if there. If this ever becomes a game show, kind of like a Newlywed Game, we should go on as a team. Because the fact that I described a song as something I would think was Donovan, and you did the math in your head, and without even hearing it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Got to Herman's Hermits, giving myself two points.

[Genevieve]

Okay. One last one that I do think. This one again. I think this one works on Spotify because I did click on this one earlier, and it sounded normal to me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Genevieve]

And then at some point, we got to figure out, because obviously this is where the show's going, is me playing Chipmunk songs for you and you guessing. So we need to get our technology dialed in so that we could do this sort of in full fidelity.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

This is a song that. Oh, by the way, I'll just spoil it for you. The number one song, the most played song on Chipmunk. This is not that, but I'm saying the most played song on Chipmunks A Go Go. It's the final track. Believe it or not, it has 58,000 plays.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Genevieve]

And I'm just gonna hit. I have not previewed this one. I'm just gonna hit play. I'm gonna pray that it's somehow in the kind of. You know, it's mixed down to where you'll be able to hear some.

[Andrew Walsh]

So you want me to guess this one, though?

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm an Arabia.

[Genevieve]

Hey, Luke. Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Herman's Hermits, I'm pretty sure, right?

[Genevieve]

They were heavily leveraged into Herman's Hermits.

[Andrew Walsh]

Am I right about that?

[Genevieve]

Well, it doesn't say. It doesn't. It's. I'm Henry vii. I am. It doesn't say who it was, but I'm gonna.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hermits. Hermits. Peter Noon. I mean, what we're learning here is that the Chipmunks. Peter Noon. Like, there's synergy there.

[Genevieve]

Yes, there's something. And. And again, I don't want to yuck any yums, but it's probably that kind of stuff that felt novelty to me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

Even though I was hearing it literally 40 years later. No, maybe 30 years later. It's funny that that's. It seems to work well for the Chipmunks. Okay, last one is there.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm gonna ask you this, and I hope I'm not blowing up. Up this last question. Although if I am blowing up this last question, I'm giving myself credit for it.

[Genevieve]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is there the Umbrella Song by the Hollies on here? I could see them doing that, you know, no thinking of, though. It seems like a Susie. Seems like a. A jam that Susie B. Could get down with. It tells a little story. I don't know, you know, Bus comes, bus goes, she stays Love grows under my umbrella oh, is that song.

[Genevieve]

That's not Where Love Grows? Where my love grows with my Rosemary. No, I love.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe that's why I. Because she loves that song, which is a different song. But anyway, go ahead.

[Genevieve]

The Umbrella Song by the Hollies.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know that song? I'm sure.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe it's called Bus Stop. I thought it was called the Umbrella Song, but you're right, it might be called Bus Stop.

[Genevieve]

I think once that once Rihanna did her Umbrella Song, the Hollies, officially, they.

[Andrew Walsh]

Just said.

[Genevieve]

This is probably the worst version of all.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is not the Chipmunks. Right?

[Genevieve]

You know this song?

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love this song. It's a good.

[Genevieve]

We're definitely getting pulled off of Kixie this episode. It's so funny because, like, I don't mind this, but there's a certain kind of almost like harpsichordic component to a lot of this music. I think if I think about this style of music, I think of it having a lot of almost baroque kind of harpsichord, like. And that is not a sound that hits my ear. I don't mind this song.

[Andrew Walsh]

Fair enough.

[Genevieve]

It doesn't. I'm not drawn towards it. And it would appear that it is a style that you are drawn towards.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, when you put it that way, I would agree with you. Like, I don't like that Tinny. You know, it's the Mids. Listen to the Mids. No, for the most part, I don't like. This is a song that I love since I was A kid. And I think it had to do with the storytelling nature of it. I realized when you're a kid, I think you're drawn to like, even the. The Beatles songs I liked a lot as a young Day in the Life. Yeah, they really kind of. They even have more literal ones, I think too, you know, Eleanor Rigby maybe.

[Genevieve]

Oh, sure.

[Andrew Walsh]

But. And so you're sort of drawn to storytelling things. And so now I can't really separate out if I would dig on the Umbrella song or Bus Stop or whatever, if I heard it for the first time today. But it's just part of my DNA now.

[Genevieve]

Absolutely. I think I mentioned. You're right. Day in the Life isn't really a kind of a linear story, but I've got it on my brain because we went down on that Beatles tour that I did in Liverpool. The bus went down Penny Lane and we literally got to see where the bank is. The banker never wears his Mac, where the barbershop was like these. And I guess this. I don't know if I said this back when I was in England and I was narrating to you basically what the tour was, but like, I guess that whole song was written. I forget, was that. Is that one considered more McCartney than Lennon? I forget. But anyway, point was there's this little spot where you could sit where whichever. Which. Where the bus stop was. And I'm forgetting if it was McCartney or Lennon, but one of them was just watching all this stuff kind of go on around them, like as a young person and basically was just narrating the comings and goings of these people. I think it was a bus they might have taken like after school or something. That same bus line, interestingly enough, George Harrison used to take it because his dad was the bus driver, so he would get free rides on the bus. And there was this point where they needed a new guitar player. And I think Paul McCartney was telling John Lennon, we should have this guy George Harrison that I know in the band. And George Harrison was like much younger than them. And John Lennon was like, no way. We're not having a 16 year old in our band. And then one day they get on the bus and George Harrison is just riding around on this bus in Liverpool with his guitar because his dad's the bus driver and he plays a tune and it sways John Lennon to let him in the band.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, nice. See, great things happen.

[Genevieve]

Was this the E Line with public transport?

[Andrew Walsh]

Was the E Line.

[Genevieve]

Absolutely.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, I never followed up with Genevieve about what happened yesterday, but she was meeting some friends and she hopped on the E line. I got a text line from her that said, the E line is really E lining tonight.

[Genevieve]

Oh, boy. But she made it home in one piece.

[Andrew Walsh]

Your head on a swivel.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, yeah, right. Okay, this is.

[Andrew Walsh]

We.

[Genevieve]

I think we've kind of like. I think we've enjoyed this together. There's just one last song that. This one. I. I love this song because it's. It's. It's sung by a guy that I am a big fan of a lot of his music. He also. I don't know if this will help. This is a dead giveaway for you, Andrew, or this makes absolutely no difference to you. He wrote the music for the Disney cartoon Robin Hood, at least the main theme song. And so I remember hearing him as a kid and not knowing his larger oeuvre of work, which I then became a fan of in adulthood. But this is another song, and the final one we'll play from the Chip Chipmunkagogo. Oh, come on.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I can't hear the bass line, but is this.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Roger Miller. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Genevieve]

I'm gonna give that one to you because you weren't getting the critical part of the song for a second.

[Andrew Walsh]

I thought that was. For a second.

[Genevieve]

Never know how much.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was like, wow, what a sexy song for the chipmunk. Okay, I'm gonna play one for you now.

[Genevieve]

Chipmunks After Dark. I love it. They're just doing, like, very overtly sexual.

[Andrew Walsh]

Numbers, but from a certain era. So it's like.

[Genevieve]

And sped up.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Yes. I love you, Dr. Zayas. You'll never make a monkey out of me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, is this real or is this. It's. The sound quality is terrible.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

The music is live in the room.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. What a strange coincidence. Although you record for two hours a day and it's a pretty wide range.

[Genevieve]

Eventually it's going to come back to Herman's Herbitz. I think you know that. But that. But that photo. So the day that we recorded that, I was supposed to send you a picture of my new record player, which I did, but it got caught in the tubes of my phone. So basically, I'd sent you a couple pictures, and then I realized later they were still in my, like, outbox. So you never got them. So you just did the logical thing, which was grabbed a different photo. There is. Is that Falco.

[Andrew Walsh]

What is that dressed up as Amadeus from the video? Yes.

[Genevieve]

Okay. I've clearly. I've never seen the video. But, like, like, but. But, yeah, that photo was. I was like, what? I. I figured that must be what it was.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that's exactly. Because you were like, oh, these never went through. What did we end up using for a show pick.

[Genevieve]

So, no, it was more like, I want to see how this photo of my record player turned out. And then I see, like, so weird.

[Andrew Walsh]

Some bug eyed guy. And I was like, pink and blue.

[Genevieve]

I guess you're trying to flex on me. And then I look at my phone and it's like, no, these have never left your phone.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. Yes.

[Genevieve]

Anyway, again, I think we. I think we. Troy McClure speaks for all of us when he says, I love you, Dr. Zayas. We was hoping for some razzle dazzle. Razzle dazzle. That's right, man. Razzle dazzle. On your mark. On your mark. Get set, get set now. Ready, ready, go. Everybody. Razzle dazzle. All right, let's thank some dazzling donors. These incredible, generous folks have stepped up and. And are supporting the show with a truly dazzling amount of dough. Couldn't this just. None of this would work without these folks. Folks like Marella, Alejandrino Morella.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you.

[Genevieve]

Of Kenmore, Washington. Mirella says. I just wanted to say a big thank you for your podcast. It's something I look forward to every day and it's honestly become such a bright spot in my routine and has been for many years. Thanks, Mirella.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you.

[Genevieve]

Appreciate you. You have this awesome way of mixing calm vibes with humor, and it's exactly what I need to feel grounded and have a good laugh. I'm so grateful to Luke and Andrew for doing this five days a week. We'll see how Mirella feels after being, let's just say, presented with a tremendous amount of. Half of a recording of the Chipmunks, one channel of a recording of the. We'll see if that was grounding today.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Okay, sure.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can you name three songs by the Paris Review?

[Genevieve]

Let's see. See Paper Tigers by George Plimpton.

[Andrew Walsh]

Pretty good, I gotta say. Better answer than I was expecting.

[Genevieve]

Picnic Lightning by Billy Collins.

[Andrew Walsh]

I just looked up and I saw that you're wearing a Paris Review T shirt underneath your sweater. And that just reminded me of the. Oh, yeah, you like Metallica? Name three songs.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

No joke. If I don't know. Is that back in production again? I'm not sure. Anyway, I didn't mean. I did not mean to take away from Mirel's message and everything that you said is right on that. That having bought a house somewhat recently in the past several years, I was very inexperienced in that. And realizing that the relationship you build with your. Your agent is unlike any other. And it's a friendship and it's a. Like you say, it's built on a lot of trust. And honestly, who's more trustworthy than the. Than the TBTL10s.

[Genevieve]

This is a person in Marella who is. Can be trusted to voluntarily donate to TBTL a significant sum of money every year just because she would like this to keep happening. So I would trust her implicitly with my real estate needs. Thank you so much. Maestro. On your mark. On your mark. Get set. God, I wish I really thought it was gonna be you were gonna come in with the Chipmunks in California Girl. Another song by the way, on Chipmunk A Go Go.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know I am now. So like just programmed. When I hear the beginning of the music like that, I'm expecting the Chipmunks to burst in. God, that would have been great if I had that ready for you today.

[Genevieve]

Somehow that actually seems like something that all of the AI music could do very easily. Right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure, yeah.

[Genevieve]

I mean if we've got Andy Rooney talking, saying TBTL drops because. Because, I mean, think about it also. What a scam. I don't mean scam. That's the wrong word. What a. What a thing to get over. That's also the wrong way to put it. I mean.

[Andrew Walsh]

Heist. Wait, no, that's right.

[Genevieve]

What a caper. What a flim. Flam. The idea that like. And I. This is something that would be easily known, but somebody. Here's what happened, Andrew. At some point, somebody put a record on the wrong speed and it made it too fast. And they were laughing. Not unlike we were when we recently listened to Tambourine man by the Chipmunks. And they just had the thought this could be a multi decade industry. Songs you've already heard, but played faster. I mean that is the entirety of the Chipmunks. You.

[Andrew Walsh]

How, how, how much are you standing by that origin story? I'll bet you it's more complicated than that. I bet you has to do with marketing and having a. You think it really started with somebody accidentally listening to a record on the wrong speed?

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

I bet you it's not quite that. Only because this, this era. Because, let's see, I'm looking to see when it was started. It was started in 1958, as you sort of alluded to before. There was just like so much novelty music. Like the other day I stumbled on like, Henry VII is just like the tip of the iceberg of that kind of thing. People were coming out and like doing really goofy novelty stuff on like. And of course this is an animated feature, so I'm not saying that this happened on some sort of a variety show, but I just sort of feel like, like the culture was rife. Were we just talking about somebody named Rife?

[Genevieve]

Yeah, the comedian, the quote unquote comedian Matt Rife.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, sorry. But anyway, I don't know if I'm using that word properly here.

[Genevieve]

It's ck. The world was ck.

[Andrew Walsh]

But anyway, I just sort of feel like somebody probably had an idea of just like they were probably playing around with technology in the studio and said, oh, I can make it sound like we're high pitched chipmunks. That's my theory on it. But I don't know, we can prove one of us right or wrong.

[Genevieve]

Well, wait, you're saying, Wait, the, repeat the thing you just said. You said you thought it was somebody in the studio messing around or you don't think it was that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I do think it was probably somebody who's like, well, if you speed this up, it's funny sounding and we can do it. I don't think it started with somebody accidentally putting a record on and being like, oh, let's record it this way on purpose.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, I think we're actually in agreement on this. I'm not saying I, I don't think it was literally like, you got peanut butter in my chocolate kind of a like thing where it was like, like it could have been that. But also I very much could believe that it was a couple of recording engineers just making each other laugh by speeding something up.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know what it was. And now this makes sense. This is probably a song that does not stand the test of time. But the first song, the person who created the Chipmunks, before creating the Chipmunks, did that song, Witch Doctor. Do you remember that one where they. Well, it's the racist stuff. Yes, exactly.

[Genevieve]

But you apparently, you know it. You know it implicitly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Look at the tape, dude, I got a tattoo.

[Genevieve]

No, but you know that songs.

[Andrew Walsh]

And I think that was the first thing where he was experimenting recording himself at different speeds to create duets between him and a witch doctor. Not unlike. What was that hip hop song from the early 90s. I got a man.

[Genevieve]

A man. What you positive? Positive K. Which I did not learn until way later was him pitched up. I really thought. I really thought there was a woman in there saying, are you a chef? Because you keep feeding me soup.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

I learned it.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was just doing both sides.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, I was. Honestly, like only five years ago did I even learn that. I would have. Because I think adding to the confusion for me, this could be a total Mandela effect. But I feel like I even had a memory of a video.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm looking at where.

[Genevieve]

Where positive K is, is. Is rapping. And then there is a woman doing the quote, unquote female part of the song.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Genevieve]

That's probably not true, but I had it in my mind.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is true because I'm looking at it right now. And that's what confused me because I.

[Genevieve]

Just assumed that was the, you know, that's who was doing that part of the song.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Right. And that was like. I think then I went further and assumed I probably have at some point said to someone, oh, that's so and so, like from. You know, like, I probably even named this the. The what I thought the woman was. I told you, like, in other words, when I thought that it was, it was positive K and a woman. I probably even thought I knew what her name was. And I probably thought she was from some band that she wasn't even from or whatever. The most embarrassing version of this for me that's ever happened though, and I think I've told you this story before was. I believe it was I. Oh, it was the Coachella. It was the very first Coachella, I think.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did you go to that?

[Genevieve]

I did, yeah. And it was. I believe the big headliners were Wilco and the Cure and the Flaming Lips.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Genevieve]

And I was very excited to see all of those bands. The thing about the Flaming Lips, that was a bummer was Wayne Coin spent. Spent of the, like, hour that they were allotted or hour and a half. He spent 40 minutes of it trying to get into one of those inflatable bubbles. Really take a really long.

[Andrew Walsh]

That long ago. They've been doing bubbles that long. Okay.

[Genevieve]

Yeah. And. And then they were like. They did, like, five songs and they were done. I was super bummed. But if I remember right, it might. It might have been at that. At that original Coachella, I think. Air. The band Air, the French band Air was playing. You can fact check me on this. Let's see. Of the lineup from the first Coachella, if I'm remembering this correctly.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'll look it up while you tell the story.

[Genevieve]

But what I. I had listened to the band Air a bunch, and I thought there was a woman in the band because it's two guys, and one of them sings in a very kind of high register. And I don't know, like, who cares? I thought that it was a woman singing whatever. But this is where I. For some reason, this is where I just get myself in trouble because I say stuff that I don't need to say. Like, I believe I said to someone, like, the chick in that band Air is so hot.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was commenting based on the music.

[Genevieve]

Based on the music, based on wanting to seem more down with the band Air than I was. I guess I actually, in the long term of my life, have listened probably to as much Air as about anybody on planet Earth. Now I have, like, you know, listen to tons and tons and tons of that band, and I'm very aware of who the people are that make the music. But at that time, I had in my mind that there was a quote, unquote, hot chick in the band Air. And I believe I said that, I think right before they came out on stage. Couple of dudes, Couple of French dudes.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Yep.

[Andrew Walsh]

So you were there for Both days. Oh, nice.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

You must say I did not mess with MF Doom at the time. I wish I would have RIP by the way. I wish I would have seen that Death Cab played.

[Andrew Walsh]

And this is a band that I know that even if the music was great, you would have never touched. And you will know us by the Trail of Dead. That was an emo band, but that sounds like a band. That name that would turn.

[Genevieve]

I had already at that point decided I was okay with the dismemberment plan and that was it. There was like you only. Only one weirdly macabre named indie band gets to get my heart. And I had already given it over to the dismemberment plan. So you will know us by the Trail of the Dead was Sol. Yeah, I remember a couple of things about that. Okay, so it was the fifth one. That's. First of all, I'm really glad we fact checked this because I have been telling everyone for years I was at the first ever coachella and in 1999 I still lived in Seattle, so of course I wasn't at that one. But what I remember about that Coachella was Wayne Coyne taking forever to get into the bubble. And also we were staying in this again. We were staying in like a condo or something that had a swimming pool. So we were a little bit of a drive from the Polo Grounds or wherever this was. It was one of those Coachellas that was so hot it was probably 110 degrees. And I remember we. We pull up in our car, we park. It's just a dust storm. And we're walking past the campground areas and there are so many tents that are literally covered in dust. It's like a. It's like a Martian landscape. And people are like, it's like a 10 in the morning and it's already like dangerously hot out. And I just see people unzipping their dust covered tents to like, like poke their head out into the 103 degree temperature. And this was the beginning of me deciding music festivals are not for me. Even though we had the like, you know, we were actually staying in somewhere that was much more comfortable and we're getting good night's sleep and everything was like fine. And I loved all these bands, but again, what I really. I. What I really wanted to see was I really wanted to see Wilco. I really wanted to see the Kuren and Flaming Lips and Radiohead. The Radiohead set was really, really good. Good. But everything else about the. The temperature, the line to get some water, all of it was like, the beginning of me kind of going, this is not a lifestyle for me. These. These big music festivals. And one other thing, what I do remember about the Flaming Lips show was standing there in the oppressive Coachella Valley heat. And I remember looking up on the side stage, and because of, you know, the Flaming List where they do this whole folderol with the, like, streamers and balloons and everyone's dancing on stage, I believe I could be misremembering, but there was a theme there. And it might have been alien themed or it might have been Dorothy and Wizard of. There was something going on where people were dressed in a certain manner. And I remember looking at the side stage, and I think I was seeing Amber Tamblyn up there of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. And I remember seeing a couple of other people that I knew from pop culture on the side of the stage drinking alcohol out of solo cups, what I assume was alcohol. And I was just standing there, broiling in the heat, like a person who had had their voice taken away by Ursula the sea witch in the Little Mermaid. And if, you know, you know. And up on stage, I saw these other people that were in this other category, and I had this thought, how do I become one of those other people? And it was then very interesting that years later, I got to be on stage with the Flaming Lips at that Sasquatch, because I really had this thought of, like, I am here. I would like to be there. I wonder how I would ever be there. And then at some point, to really be there, like, in a very literal way with the band that had sparked the thought, was kind of a mind. Kind of a mind F for me, really. And also, I was drunk. I was loaded off my ass when I was on stage with the Flaming Lips. So that was adding to it. But I haven't had anything else happen like that where I have a moment of, like, I would like to manifest this, and then somehow, like, five, six years later, it's manifest. Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. That's really amazing. Now I want to do something here. And we have to get to our second dazzling donor. I'll refire the music for this dazzling donor who's been waiting on the edge of his seat Waiting for us to read his message, but. So I'm looking at the lineup for. I mean, there's a whole bunch of. I can't list every band that played on the Sunday May 2nd, when you saw the Cure and the Flaming Lips and all these folks that you mentioned, Bell and Sebastian, too, but I'm looking at one of the other stages, and this is. I'm not cherry picking here. The outdoor theater. The last 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 bands or artists on this list. I'm not cherry picking. I'm just going to list the last six of the outdoor theater. And I'm going to ask you if there's ever been anything that says 2005 more than this. I didn't think I could feel nostalgia for 2005 until I saw this list. Right. Bright eyes, cursive atmosphere.

[Genevieve]

Oh, gosh.

[Andrew Walsh]

Broken Social Scene. Wait for it. Chick, chick, chick.

[Genevieve]

You're one of a hundred people who knows how to pronounce the name of that band.

[Andrew Walsh]

And pretty girls make graves.

[Genevieve]

Oh, my God. Wasn't Chick, chick, Chick, like, just exclamation points?

[Andrew Walsh]

Three exclamation points, but I think it's called Chick.

[Genevieve]

Yeah, it is. No, you're right. But, I mean, that was a real. Like, that was a real password that you. Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

It was such a moment, you know.

[Genevieve]

Like if you knew that it was chick, chick, chick you were in.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. And the thing is, I know I knew songs by chick, chick, chick. I couldn't name one right now for you. I can't even name a song. But I know that I listen to them anyway.

[Genevieve]

The only chick, chick, chick I want to hear is Chip, Chip, Chip. Monk Andrew. On your mark. Mike Strauss. Look who it is. It's Paul Pope of Annapolis, Maryland, waiting patiently as we journeyed down memory lane with Coachella. Thank you, Paul, for your patience and mostly, thank you for your support. My goodness, Paul says that Luke, Andrew, John, and Tens as I sit here listening to episode 4387. Let's see. Actually, pretty. We're at 4:13 today. So not, you know, what is that, 30ish episodes back?

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe I'm going to see what we talk. You read the message. I'm going to see what we talked about today. See if it was a good episode.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Let's just say January was a terrible week. I don't even know what that means, but I stand by it.

[Genevieve]

Paul says I'm recovering from surgery and I'll be off my foot for at least the next month. I'm sure that by the time you dummies eventually. Okay, Paul, like, one, please. It's the New York Times on second reference. It's a dummy first reference. Thank you, God. Are we the last two people who are in any way committed to the New York Times and AP Style? I'm sure that by that time, you dummy. By the time you dummies eventually read this, I will have long been back on my feet playing Pokemon Go again.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, let's hope so.

[Genevieve]

But during these next few weeks, TBTL will hold two special places in my life that I'd like to celebrate. First, you guys will be in my ear holes keeping me company as I recuperate. Thanks for that. Second, the only article of clothing I own that fits over the cast on my leg is none other than. Cue Trumpet Drop my pair of Tonight pants. Hey, look at that. See, that's everyone. Put your tonight pants in your Bug out bag. In your go bag. That was a weird. I don't know if it was a weird headline, but it was an interesting headline in the Seattle Times today. It's the, like, 24th anniversary of the Nisqually earthquake.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, is it the 24th?

[Genevieve]

I'm guessing I could be wrong about that number. Okay, it's a. It's a. It's been many years since the Nisqually quake, but of course, I remember it very vividly because I was already. I was at the first Coachella when it happened.

[Andrew Walsh]

Actually, I was already performing with the Cure.

[Genevieve]

I was headlining. I was inside of a. Of a bubble playing with the Cure. But I remember because I worked at Kuow when that earthquake happened, and I remember exactly where I Was they were in the new building and I was. What if this is wrong, Andrew? What if. I feel like. What I can picture is I was walking towards the printer at Kuow when the Nisqually quake happened. And in my mind it was in the quote unquote, new building, the place on the Ave, which has now been there for many, many years. But it seems new to me and I remember getting under a desk. But is it possible? What I'm worried about is that if we actually do the timeline, we'll find that Kuow had not even moved into the new building when the Nisqually quake happened.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, you are right that it was exactly 24 years ago. So it was a 2001. When did Kow move in a new building?

[Genevieve]

Well, that I don't know, but I'm going to say. I'm going to say it was 2001 because you know what? When I got hired full time there, it was in the new building. The quote unquote, new building in 2001. Let's see, when was Schubert dip?

[Andrew Walsh]

Mm. This is a hard thing for me to figure out on the fly when they would have moved because of.

[Genevieve]

I do. I feel confident about this because basically we were in that building when 911 happened. And because I remember, I just remembered a lot of those shows happening and us, you know, trying our best to bring whatever local angle we could to this international crisis. But all that is to say they, they.

[Andrew Walsh]

The.

[Genevieve]

The headline in the Seattle Times today was something like, it's been 24 years since the Nisqually quake. Here's what to put in your go bag. I was like, all right, I guess. All right, I guess we're trying to. We're trying to give this an immediacy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I don't like that either. Like, I mean, I, I'm not, I'm not against them trying to get a public service announcement in there. Actually, I think that's pretty important. In fact, Vivs and I were just talking. We do have a bin, of course. Genevieve set this up and I think she started this in la. Do you remember there? I think I've mentioned this on the show before. There was a specific earthquake in la. It wasn't especially destructive that I know of, but it was one that we all felt and it happened on St. Patrick's Day. So they called it the Shamrock Shake.

[Genevieve]

Do you remember? That's pretty.

[Andrew Walsh]

Which is ironic because look, I have a sticky note here that says from earlier this week.

[Genevieve]

I'm supposed to get promises made, promises kept. Question mark.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, not yet, but we still. I looked it up. It's around through March or something like that. I think I'll get one, by the way. Shoot. Sorry, I'm on so many. The shamrock. I will say I looked it up to see if the Shamrock shake is available this year and if so, how long. And so I found some sort of quote unquote news story about it, I think on USA Today and it mentioned.

[Genevieve]

It'S been retitled the America Shake is.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

I know because I also, I mean, it's pretty rare that I would order a McDonald's shake, but when I have, I don't know why I hate that plastic dome. Because think about it, what it's allegedly doing. And this is the same thing with Slurpees now, it's giving you more product. In the case of a McDonald's shake, that plastic dome is allowing for a bunch of whipped cream or something. But it doesn't. You're right, it doesn't feel. And also they've got these straws that sometimes are like squarish, I think, and can also be a spoon, depending on how thick the shake is or whatever. I don't know. I could be mixing up my whipped dessert options at various places. But I'm with you. Like a McDonald's chocolate shake used to be when I was a kid, the absolute height of treating yourself and of decadence and of this is an amazing Saturday in my life. This is. And it was never in my case because my parents were taking me, was because I had some allowance money and I'd gone up to that McDonald's on Greenwood Avenue and I got something and a chocolate shake. And like it was. You're right. Is that waxy cup. It's the flat lid. It's this whole thing and there's something about it not. Not looking the same. That kind of takes away a little bit of the fun for me, you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Know, Luke, I'm seeing another dazzling detail from kow's history here on the Wikipedia page, but I'm not going to get into it. I'm going to look at me. I'm a disciplined broadcaster. We'll save this for.

[Genevieve]

I'm trying to.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, it's something fun. I don't think about it a couple of years ago that I'm trying to not say everything that pops in my head these days. Believe it or not.

[Genevieve]

Good looking out. We are over an hour into the show and we haven't even entered Lawnmower Talk. And we still need to keep thanking Paul Pope. Paul says, of course, the Tonight pants are the only thing that fit over his cast currently. He says, however, my physical therapist just tilted her head like Nipper the RCA dog when I tried to explain why I went to PT in a pair of pants with a repeating pants pattern. It's a lot of P's, dude. It was an adorkable meta moment. Priceless granite. Power out. Paul in Annapolis. Wow. I love.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't usually like to correct you when you're reading these things, but I think it's. Is priceless granite perfect.

[Genevieve]

I was trying to read. I did not have the bandwidth to also go find the drop, but I think that was better than the actual drop.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, that wasn't the drop.

[Genevieve]

Paul, thank you so much for supporting the show. We really do appreciate you and feel better. Hope that ankle is healing up. Hello and welcome to Top Story. Andrew, you know what? This Top Story could also fall under the banner of. And I'm going slow here because I'm giving you time to retrieve some audio that we might need here on a Friday as we're looking towards the next couple of days, you know, picking up what I'm putting down.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I got it.

[Genevieve]

Okay. Yes. Back to the history of kuow. Hey, Andrew. Big weekend plans.

[Luke Burbank]

Big weekend.

[Genevieve]

The biggest one I've ever had.

[Luke Burbank]

Big Weekend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Weirdly, that still caught me off guard because I thought you were gonna have me ready for that because you're gonna go into Lawnmower.

[Genevieve]

Well, I am.

[Andrew Walsh]

And you wanted this. Oh. Because that's part of your big weekend plans. Okay, well, then let me not filibuster about my big weekend plans. I don't have tons on the schedule, except for one funny little thing that I might have mentioned to you a couple of weeks ago when I was looking ahead at my schedule. And I see, and I have no recollection of when or how this ended up on my calendar, but I see that either I or somebody via invitation put on my calendar Seattle Miniature Show. Oh, and I looked it up and there is a. Do you say miniature or miniature? There is.

[Genevieve]

I would say miniature.

[Andrew Walsh]

Probably in this case. There's a Seattle miniature show going on. I. I think in southcenter. This screams of Genevieve or Howzer. I'm not sure.

[Genevieve]

Does Houser have access to your calendar?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I mean, I guess he could have sent me an invite or he could have said, you know, hey, do you want to go to this thing? Put it on your calendar. It just seems like something one of either of my friends, Genevieve or Hauser, would be interested in going to this thing. So I need to look up the details and see if I can make it happen.

[Genevieve]

Deets on this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Genevieve]

There is a note regarding admission. They are not set up for debit cards. I saw that.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

No, that's a good deal for us. Only Saturday afternoon down there enjoying some miniatures. It's put on by Pat Bennett. She's the show promoter. Her introduction to dollhouse miniatures was at a garage sale 30 plus years ago when she took quote, free dealer catalog from a box at the end of the driveway. The rest is history. Andrew, I know that I've been down that road.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Are those different words?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's what I'm asking. You don't know either, huh?

[Genevieve]

No, I do know that Pat Bennett's motto is Happiness is miniatures.

[Andrew Walsh]

How do they come up with this?

[Genevieve]

We didn't call them miniature tigers, did we? Remember our friends the miniature Tigers?

[Andrew Walsh]

The miniature Tigers, Were they.

[Genevieve]

I don't think we call them miniature Tigers. I think we call them miniature tigers.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

You're absolutely right.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, around 5:00, I was gonna say. Oh, even better. Yeah, I. Let's see. I could probably. Yeah, I was. It's a beautiful day outside. The Mariners have a spring training game on kind of in the early evening. And I'm wondering. I. I'm not, I'm not joking about this. If people don't see a newsletter in their inbox this weekend, don't panic, Luke. I know you did a video for it, but I assume that can hang till next year. Possibly. I'm not sure yet. I've been. I have not done any work on it. And I'm feeling those feelings you're talking about when you look out the window and you see the sun outside and like, do I feel like sitting behind this computer all afternoon?

[Genevieve]

I think honestly it's about self care. It's about work, life balance. And I think if you go out and enjoy this, because the thing is, tomorrow, I think the kind of like lousy weather returns and for the foreseeable future, we are in a very specific moment of time where it feels like this and looks like this and smells like this and we should take advantage of it. And if that means that we also. It'll just help you recharge. I don't want the newsletter. As a person who does nothing to help with the newsletter, I don't want it to be a source of stress or a sort of Damocles or A whatever. I think sometimes, you know, hanging up a gone fishing sign for a week kind of probably you'll fall back in love with the newsletter next week.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe I'll just do that. Maybe I'll literally send out a gone fishing sign.

[Genevieve]

I would totally support that as your.

[Andrew Walsh]

Cobra next week, by the way, the weather right now. And I think you're gonna know what I mean when I say this. It feels like hose weather. Like, I'm thinking if I'm not gonna sit here and do that newsletter, I can put on a pair of like old thicker shoes so my footsies don't get wet and pull out the hose and start hosing down some of the things in the yard. I think I need to do a.

[Genevieve]

Hose yourself up and down.

[Andrew Walsh]

I got this tiny little, like kind of this little roofing, you know, that wavy roofing material over top of our.

[Genevieve]

Oh yeah, corrugated.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, exactly. It's plastic. We put it up there I think a summer or two ago and it's got all kinds of moss falling on it right now. I'm gonna go up there and hose it down.

[Genevieve]

I love it. I want to see some photos of this. Well, I'm about to send you a photo, Andrew, because this morning I realized that what I wanted to do was get out and mow the lawn and listen to the Mariners and maybe swing by the store down in town and grab a couple ears of corn and other barbecue ables. Other things that I could even maybe grill out. But as I mentioned earlier this week. Week, I also wanted to see what was doing with my. The lawnmower blades.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, you mentioned.

[Genevieve]

And because this all started because I saw that there was a. That's a mobile blade sharpening guy and on his sandwich board it said lawnmower blades. And I was like, oh, yeah, that's a good point. So this morning after my jog, I. I went down to where my rider, my Ryobi riding lawnmower is and I tipped it over, which was a great feeling, Andrew, because I did not have to worry at all about any kind of gasoline or oil leaking. And what I saw underneath the, you know, the. Whatever you call it, the mower. The blades, Andrew, the blades are so jacked up. Like, it's clear that I hit a huge rock that bent. There's two sets of blades. Like think of kind of almost like helicopter a little bit.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Genevieve]

Both of the blades have. Have one end of them that are like bent in like a totally ridiculous fashion where I clearly like hit a rock as these two blades were sort of overlapping. And it, like, you know what I mean? And, like, wildly bent them. They are corroded, they are rusty.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are they bent? In a way. It's been a long, long time since I dealt with a mower with a bent blade. But I feel like I have this visceral memory of having done that. And then when you push the lawnmower, it's cutting a rut into the ground because the blade is bent down towards the earth. Do you know what I'm talking about? So do you have any recollection of pushing this thing and being like, oh, man, that's weird. That's jacking up my lawn.

[Genevieve]

Well, the thing is, I'm driving it, so it's a little bit of a different.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's why I'm picturing this wrong. And that's why there are two blades. Of course. I'm sorry. Yes.

[Genevieve]

But. But. But I will tell you this. This thing hasn't been right, you know, for, like, it's. It's. It's been, I guess, kind of working. But, like, it's been being weird for, like, starting, let's say, in July or something. This thing has not been right. And now I understand why. It's because I had totally jacked up the blades. And so here's the thing. Guess how much a replacement set of these Ryobi blades?

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

$29. Oh, such a deal.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, great.

[Genevieve]

So I've ordered some. Going to be arriving at my local Home Depot.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, sweet.

[Genevieve]

But not until later in the week. Not until early next week.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Yes, they are. And then using, like, channel locks to just kind of bend them back, which would have never occurred to me. Also, of the many things about this house that I inherited that I don't like, including an NRA mailing list, et cetera, the guy who had this house before me had like, has about four different sets of like, mounted vise grips on various workbenches in the basement, if you know what I'm saying. Like big kind of industrial vice grips or vices.

[Andrew Walsh]

Vice grip is two vices.

[Genevieve]

You know what I'm talking.

[Andrew Walsh]

I misspoke to begin the segment, but yeah, vices and vice grips.

[Genevieve]

Vices. Yeah. The kind of thing that's, that's attached to the workbench, that's got the kind of twirly thing on it. So I've got those.

[Andrew Walsh]

You. But you said that that was something that you weren't happy that you inherited.

[Genevieve]

Of the many things that I am happy about.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, okay, gotcha.

[Genevieve]

I am happy that I have vice grips and that it turns out those appear to be. Wait, I'm saying it again.

[Andrew Walsh]

Vices.

[Genevieve]

Well, we know I've got vices. Oh, good news.

[Andrew Walsh]

He got new vi. He got more vices.

[Genevieve]

These ones are a little better than some of the ones I've battled, but because I, I'm glad to know that like, like I have the proper tool for the job. I watched a couple of YouTube videos about it. Again, my entire idea was get. Take these blades off, lay them down on the concrete and start wailing on them with a hammer, which is literally the number one thing they say you shouldn't do. So later I'm going to unscrew them. I think getting them off of the thing is going to be a bit of a chore, but I'll give it a shot. Get them in the vise, get them straightened out, get them back on the mower for at least today.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe give them a. Do you have a. Do you have a file? Could you sharpen them?

[Genevieve]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Genevieve]

Come on. Who do you think you're Talking to.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did you buy six?

[Genevieve]

No, I bought four. Four.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, that makes sense. Sure.

[Genevieve]

I bought. I bought two sets. Here was my thought. I think I'm going to need. I think the. Basically the deal. I'm not planning on hitting more stuff, but I have a feeling that. Because really, there's also a lot of, like, corrosion and stuff just from, like, you know, moisture. I have a feeling that really what you need to do is every season, you know, when it's time, when we're back to the spring and it's time to start again, probably replace the blades. And considering they're 29, that seems like a good investment for getting really good outcomes for the entire season. So I thought if I'm ordering one of these things, I might as well order two. I'll put one up on the workbench. And so then next spring, when I replace them again, I don't have to go buy them, is my thought.

[Andrew Walsh]

I like that thought. But anyway, that's what I am.

[Genevieve]

I am, as you can tell, Andrew, I am like. Like, I'm. You're going to be getting videos of me on the lawnmower riding around today because I'm. And I didn't even know the Mariner game was at five. But that's.

[Andrew Walsh]

I just looked it up during the show at some point because I was looking out my window. I am getting those feelings. And I. Again, I know, I know that we'll get more rain and stuff. Like, I'm not really bummed about having a little spring. It was weird. Like, sort of online, you say on Reddit. I saw people like, you know, I'm on the Seattle subreddit or whatever, and people complain about all kinds of things, but, like, kind of saying, like, like, we, oh, man, it's full spring. We're having, like, people were already complaining about the fact that we have a few days of nice weather. And I'm kind of like, well, don't. Just don't complain that bad weather is on the horizon. Enjoy these few days of beautiful weather in January or February.

[Genevieve]

No good weather or some good weather. Some good weather.

[Andrew Walsh]

So I'm looking outside my window right now and just thinking, like, yeah, I'm thinking about baseball. I'm thinking about. I don't even know who the Mariners are playing or if it's televised even, but I could even see myself getting out my little push mower or something. But, yeah, I need to be.

[Genevieve]

The idea that I could be like, it could be 5 o'clock and I could be making some sort of an outdoor related food thing with the baseball game on. And granted these games could not mean less. They're with. By the third inning I won't recognize any of the players on either of the teams. But just the idea that that could be the backdrop of my kind of late afternoon as it's almost touching 70 is as, as, as I like to say is given me life. It's making me feel good on this Friday and there's not a lot of stuff out there to make us feel good. So I'll take it.

[Andrew Walsh]

And they're playing our. What do they call them? Our natural rivals, the San Diego Padres. Which is funny they call them.

[Genevieve]

Is that because they also play in Peoria?

[Andrew Walsh]

That is my understanding. Unless I'm just loud wrong about this. But I just think it's the most laughable thing. I feel like when I was listening to spring training a while back, like years ago, they would say ah, natural.

[Genevieve]

Rival natural the mean in a different division.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, like what is that?

[Genevieve]

Like they're a National League team because.

[Andrew Walsh]

We share the practice facility or something. So they're trying to I think just like kind of.

[Genevieve]

Yeah. Make it a thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Make it a thing. And you know the Padres are going to be good this year. Oops. Let's not get into baseball talk. I've done that too many times this week.

[Genevieve]

Honestly, at this point I think this is. This show is just for us. Andrew. I've descended deep into lawnmower talk usually when people check out.

[Andrew Walsh]

So let's get out of here. Okay.

[Genevieve]

Thank you for listening everyone. That will bring us to the end of this broadcast. We week appreciate you.

[Andrew Walsh]

They mean nothing. Sorry, were you talking. Sorry.

[Genevieve]

Is that the Chipmunks Do Words by dove doing words. Both very regrettable way to end the week. Thanks for listening everybody. We'll be back here on Monday with more imaginary radio. In the meantime, have a great weekend, stay safe, take care of yourselves and please remember, no mountain too tall and.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good luck to all. Power out.