#4451 A Way With Worlds

Summary

Episode #4451: A Way With Worlds

Release Date: April 23, 2025
Hosts: Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh

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1. Introduction to the Episode

In this episode of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live, hosts Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh dive into a variety of engaging topics, blending humor with insightful discussions. From quirky personal anecdotes to intriguing news stories, Luke and Andrew navigate through their conversations with their characteristic camaraderie.

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2. The Intriguing Lyft Ride

Timestamp: [05:03] – [20:36]

Luke kicks off the episode by recounting a memorable Lyft ride he had while filming a story about Seth MacFarlane's mansion. The ride becomes a focal point of their discussion as Luke describes the driver's unconventional behavior.

• Excessive Conversation: Luke shares how the driver, Rod, veered off-topic, delving into personal stories about his life, including his son's musical endeavors.

  "He probably tried to steal Jay Z's comedy material or rapping material and pass it off as his own clever line."
  — [19:55] Luke Burbank

• Musical Performances: Rod showcases his singing talents by performing Jim Croce songs alongside his son, asserting their supremacy over Croce's legacy.

  "You got to see this in the theater. I'm gonna see it today... It's so good."
  — [13:07] Andrew Walsh

• Impact on Luke: The prolonged and unpredictable nature of the ride leaves Luke both frustrated and entertained, highlighting the challenges of sharing stories in unexpected settings.

  "He's attempting to speedrun a version of my dream life and realize our princess is in another castle."
  — [06:10] Luke Burbank

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3. Reflections on Seth MacFarlane's Mansion

Timestamp: [02:03] – [12:00]

While at Seth MacFarlane's opulent mansion, Luke contemplates the allure and emptiness that such grandeur can bring. The mansion, reminiscent of a mid-century glass box, boasts features like an infinity pool and a hidden IMAX theater, which Luke examines critically.

• Aspirational vs. Fulfilling: Luke expresses that despite the mansion embodying his dream life, it lacks the warmth and fulfillment he associates with a family-oriented home.

  "I just feel like I don't need a 40 million dollar mansion. I just need a Lyft ride back to the hotel."
  — [14:02] Luke Burbank

• Andrew's Perspective: Andrew echoes Luke's sentiment, appreciating more restrained and tasteful expressions of wealth over ostentatious displays.

  "It's like dig a second basement. Put an IMAX in there and, and don't even tell people about it. That's the ultimate flex."
  — [08:12] Andrew Walsh

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4. The Australian Twins Story

Timestamp: [55:14] – [65:10]

Shifting gears, Luke introduces a compelling news story from Australia involving identical twins who deliver a synchronized interview during a harrowing carjacking incident.

• Simultaneous Speaking: The twins recount their mother's bravery during a violent carjacking, narrating the events in perfect unison without any apparent coordination.

  "Witnesses are recounting some of the drama that unfolded on the Sunshine Coast... two sisters have told how their mother and man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way."
  — [55:14] Luke Burbank

• Uncanny Synchronization: Luke and Andrew analyze the twins' behavior, pondering whether it's a natural bond developed over years or an intentional performance, especially given the serious context of the incident.

  "They just think of it as their life. There is not one photo of these two where they're not dressed exactly the same."
  — [60:46] Luke Burbank

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5. Engaging with Listeners: Voicemails and Shoutouts

Timestamp: [46:29] – [73:39]

The episode transitions into a lively segment where Luke and Andrew interact with listener voicemails, sharing humorous scenarios and heartfelt messages.

• Listener Stories: From a caller with an aggressive two-year-old duck to another recounting a memorable encounter with actor Jonathan Reese Davies, the hosts showcase the diversity of their audience's experiences.

  "I've got a two-year-old silver appleyard drake... looking to find him a new home or to find him a mate."
  — [69:31] Luke Burbank

• Community Highlights: The hosts express gratitude towards their supporters, acknowledging contributions that help keep the show running.

  "Theresa in Seattle, Washington... You make me laugh, you entertain me. You've gotten me through some very dark times."
  — [46:19] Luke Burbank

• Humorous Exchanges: Light-hearted banter ensues as listeners share jokes and amusing musings, adding an authentic and relatable touch to the episode.

  "Why is the egg so happy? Because he wasn't spoiled."
  — [73:39] Luke Burbank

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6. Closing Remarks and Future Engagements

In the concluding moments, Luke and Andrew reflect on the day’s discussions, share personal insights, and encourage listeners to stay connected.

• Personal Reflections: Luke muses about the unpredictability of interactions and their impact on one's day, illustrating the show's blend of personal anecdotes and broader reflections.

  "How much you live in my head... it's like we're living in each other's heads."
  — [68:03] Luke Burbank

• Looking Ahead: The hosts hint at future topics and express excitement for upcoming episodes, maintaining engagement with their audience.

  "We will see you tomorrow with more... we'll see you then."
  — [68:32] Luke Burbank

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7. Notable Quotes

Throughout the episode, Luke and Andrew share memorable lines that encapsulate their dynamic and the episode's themes:

• On Personal Growth and Aspirations:

  "I think I have my pull quote."
  — [00:27] Luke Burbank

• On Maintaining Boundaries:

  "It's all about boundaries and you have very strong boundaries when it comes to tradio."
  — [47:23] Andrew Walsh

• On Shared Experiences:

  "We were sitting and sitting and sitting... now we're a mile from the hotel."
  — [24:23] Luke Burbank

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8. Conclusion

Episode #4451 of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live offers listeners a rich tapestry of stories, from the amusing to the profound. Luke and Andrew's ability to intertwine personal experiences with broader narratives ensures an engaging and relatable listening experience. Whether navigating the quirks of luxury lifestyles or delving into unique human behaviors, this episode underscores the show's commitment to exploring life's multifaceted journeys with humor and heart.

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Transcript

[Luke Burbank]

Every single piece I curate is bespoke.

[Andrew Walsh]

Ooh, bespoke.

[Luke Burbank]

I love that word. What does it mean again? Bespoke.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bespoke.

[Luke Burbank]

It's when an object bespeaks it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Betalks it.

[Luke Burbank]

No, wait. It be. Teaches us something about ourselves.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow. Yeah. Thank you.

[Luke Burbank]

I think I have my pull quote.

[Andrew Walsh]

Tbtl.

[Luke Burbank]

Giddy up. We're jumping on the audio wagon today, everybody. I say. I say wait up, dog. Let the fun begin. That's a tuna, bro. I just feel like I'm excited and.

[Andrew Walsh]

I feel relaxed and I'm ready to.

[Luke Burbank]

Party.

[Andrew Walsh]

With the best of them.

[Luke Burbank]

They're just a bunch of savages, right? We're not like your fancy California friends, your George Clooney, and your California raisins.

[Andrew Walsh]

We're the number one show in hospitals and on sinking riverboat casinos.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, let's toss the Vol around.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

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.

[Andrew Walsh]

Scatman's World.

[Luke Burbank]

My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host.

[Andrew Walsh]

Who's crazy? Me or Ann Curry?

[Luke Burbank]

Coming to you from the intersection of 3rd and La Cienega here in Beverly Hills. Ish. California. California got sunshine. Where they are loading in a World's Gym across the street. And I didn't realize this. There's an entire industry of gym equipment delivery people, and they're doing it right now. And we're gonna watch it as we bring you episode 4451 in a collector series. Let the fun begin.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, boy.

[Luke Burbank]

There is a story out of Australia that is just absolutely rocking my world.

[Andrew Walsh]

Australia is a wonderful island.

[Luke Burbank]

I actually showed this video to an Australian cameraman yesterday.

[Andrew Walsh]

And Australians are just as unique, both warm and direct.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, he's a CBS camera guy. He's from Australia, and he was blown away by it too, which tells me that it is actually an amazing video of something that happened on, first of all, Steve Irwin Road. They're just naming roads after the Crocodile Hunter there and these two twins that they interviewed. It's really something to behold. We'll play that. We'll talk to this guy, too. The longest running cobra of the show. Maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. What a fun, sexy time for you. He's Andrew Walsh. She's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good morning, Luke. I may have misheard you. I may have misheard you. What kind of gym is it that they're putting in there across the street?

[Luke Burbank]

It's a Golds Gym.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. For some reason, and I could be wrong about this, you can go back and check the tape. I thought you said Worlds Gym, but.

[Luke Burbank]

That I might have.

[Andrew Walsh]

You might. I was also paying a Puget Sound energy bill while you said that, if I'm being totally honest.

[Luke Burbank]

So I'm gonna send you a picture, Andrew, of why I probably said Worlds Gym and you're gonna actually side with me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, hold on. There are sides?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. There is a palm tree that's blocking everything except the D and apostrophe s. Oh, okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. No, and I wasn't. I didn't even mean to get in your head. I just wanted. In case it comes up and you're. You're. You're talking about the gym. I just wanted to be clear as to what kind of gym, because I had not heard of a World's Gym.

[Luke Burbank]

But no, it's not a real thing. Yeah, it's a Gold's Gym. I think I said World Gym. But again, when you see this photo of the palm tree and then the D and then the apostrophe s, you could see a universe in which I think thought it was World's Gym.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, no, absolutely. And I accept that. I do like the idea of. If I'm not taking your side, whose side am I taking in? This.

[Luke Burbank]

Big Jim.

[Andrew Walsh]

Big Jim Jym different than Big, who.

[Luke Burbank]

Used to be great Jim Croce song.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, sure.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, speaking of which, I don't mean to come in hot, but can I tell you about my lift ride home?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't have a lot to waste your time.

[Luke Burbank]

With today from Seth McFarland's mansion that involved Jim Croce.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. First of all, I learned something at Seth MacFarlane's mansion, which is. I don't think I need a mansion. It's. He lives at the Tippy. Let me put it this way. His house looks down on the house that LeBron James is building. He lives in a house that LeBron James would live in if he could get to the top of this literal mountain in Beverly Hills. And I was standing up there for many hours yesterday, looking around, and I was observing the parallels that everyone has observed about me and Seth MacFarlane. Young, single, not single, but young, unmarried, handsome, fabulously wealthy, living in the sky. These are the parallels that everyone points out about us.

[Andrew Walsh]

He's older than you though, right?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. And also, I'm not rich, but go with me on this. I was standing up there looking around what was effectively the dream version of my life. Except if we could swap out Seth MacFarlane's house for the. What's called. Oh, it's one of the case study homes. It's the. That big glass box that's very famous for its mid century that kind of hangs out cantilevers over like the sort of Lights of LA. If you could put that house up where Seth MacFarlane lives, you'd have exactly my dream. But he has, of course, an infinity pool. And just like this house that's beyond incredible. And I stood up there and I looked around and I literally had the thought, all right, I've seen enough. It was really weird. Like, this is. None of this has to do with the lift or World's Gym or Jim Croce, but I just, I. I was able to basically, like, what? Speedrun. I was able to speedrun a version of my dream life and get to the end and realize our princess is in another castle, if that makes sense.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think so. I think so. I mean, like, I just, I was.

[Luke Burbank]

There was nobody around and I was just standing up there and I was looking at this infinity pool. And then everything that was sort of like displayed beneath me and like. And just thought this would be the dream scenario for me. I could get to this point. And it just, it didn't feel, again, it wasn't my house. It didn't feel the way that my sort of. The voice in my head tells me that would feel. And I know that, like intellectually, but I got to just like, I get to kind of like live in it for a minute. Yesterday, the house was amazing, but it felt slightly. How do I put, Seemed like it would be cool to have half that size of a house and have like a family running around in it or something. It was just like, it was like, what happens if you were to give, you know, again, an unmarried man an unlimited amount of money and just like make the platonic, in my mind, ideal of what life could be. And it was fine, it was nice, I would take it. But it was. Didn't feel as fulfilling as I kind of, I guess again, in my weaker moments think it would feel.

[Andrew Walsh]

Was this playing in the background?

[Luke Burbank]

There was a little. There was a little horseman being bojacked. Indeed.

[Andrew Walsh]

BoJack horseman up in the Hollywoo Hills, dude.

[Luke Burbank]

And there was a point where one of the guys I was talking to said, have you been to the IMAX theater? I go, where around? He goes, no, under the house. Oh, I didn't even know there was. They. He dug out an imax theater underneath the home.

[Andrew Walsh]

I gotta say, there are not a lot of like, kind of like things that rich people do to their house that are like real splashy like that, you know, that, that appeal to me or seem like super indulgent, you know what I mean? Like, I mean we play in different spaces, but I appreciate more of, you know, if you have a lot of money and you're able to spend it in a very, very like sort of like tasteful, restrained way. Like, I really appreciate that as opposed to, you know, something that might seem a little bit more, I don't know, what's the word? Bougie?

[Luke Burbank]

Ostentatious.

[Andrew Walsh]

Ostentatious, like a big, you know, like overstuffed theater seats in a home theater or something like that. All but having said that, if you just told me that we could have another, I wouldn't want to give up my current basement.

[Luke Burbank]

Obviously you're just a basement guy, but.

[Andrew Walsh]

If there's a basement underneath my basement that nobody knew about and it was had a full size theater in there, it doesn't even have to be imax, I got to say that would be pretty cool.

[Luke Burbank]

And I want to be clear. This house was very tasteful. It was kind of Spanish Revival. It was. The fact that I didn't know there was an IMAX theater I think speaks to on a certain level, the restraint, you know?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Like it's like dig a second basement. Put an IMAX in there and, and don't even tell people about it. That's the ultimate flex. But yeah, I mean it was, it maybe that was what got to me was, you know, I've been in some pretty fancy houses and sometimes they are, you know, designed in such a way that they are showing off the wealth. And that is a turn off to me. And so I walk up to a house like that, if it's in, you know, Calabasas or something and it's got a bowling alley in it and it's got like a nine car garage. It's the first thing you see. I immediately read that as like, ah, this isn't what I would do if I could do this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, hold on. No, I would put a basement underneath the IMAX and also put a bowling alley in too. But I wouldn't tell, but I wouldn't tell anybody about this. It's eventually like silo, right? Or like those wool books you just.

[Luke Burbank]

Keep, keep putting things in under other things.

[Andrew Walsh]

They're all secret rumpus rooms, they're all fun, but they're not in Anybody's eyes.

[Luke Burbank]

One rumpus room you just clean.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Even though you can afford to have somebody come clean it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, now I'm starting to feel like my innie is in there just cleaning all the. Sorry.

[Luke Burbank]

No, no, no. Your Audi would be the one cleaning. Your Audi would be like. No, no, I want to only clean and I want to only be conscious of it. Yeah, no, it was. I think part of it was that the house was so well done and so actually understated. Even in its, you know, vast vastness and also fanciness, it was. It was understated. And that kind of led me to feel like this is what I would do if I had this kind of money. And then this is what it would feel like. Let me put it this way. There was so much incredibly nice patio furniture. And each piece of patio furniture was covered with a weather kind of like a, you know, a cover that was. That was sort of snapped down so that the leaves and the rain and things wouldn't, you know, mess up the expensive patio furniture. There was maybe 30 patio chairs and lounges and things that were all covered with covers. And there was something deeply depressing about it. The fact that it was like, here's all the patio furniture you could ever need. We're not using it and we're covering it for the time when we will use it, which might be never.

[Andrew Walsh]

Although you sort of imagine the day of the party, right. With people going around uncovering that furniture and getting ready for all the guests.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. And I'm sure on that day, and I'm sure that day happens, it's a lovely day, but it just. Sorry, I'm sending you this world's gym photo as well as I'm talking. I just want to make sure. I want to make sure you understand that. I had a point when I called it worlds, Jim.

[Andrew Walsh]

What I love is that we're talking about this. This literal mansion in Hollywood and the show pick is going to be half of a God design that with a.

[Luke Burbank]

Palm tree blocking part of the L. The L was the. Actually, no, you know what war they. The palm tree could have actually been all the way over on the G and I still would have had issues. Right? Golds and worlds. Yeah, they're just one letter off. Okay. I'm feeling more and more justified.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, fine. Now listen, Mr. Wordle, I want to.

[Andrew Walsh]

Say I want a. I want another level. I want another rumpus room. And it's not a gym, but it's just a half completed sign of a gym behind A palm tree.

[Luke Burbank]

Imagine showing that off to people. They're just like, they keep this, this elevator keeps going down to the different silo levels of this incredible mansion of yours. And they're like, this was an inside joke with Luke.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nobody's allowed down there. It's just all for me. Speaking of theaters, by the way, and I know you have a lot to talk about, this Lyft ride or whatever it was sounds fascinating, but just speaking of theaters, I do have a quick question for you. Do you know anything about this movie Sinners? Because I think I'm going to see it today. Everybody online is kind of like, you have it is getting rave reviews.

[Luke Burbank]

That's the new like Ryan Kubler film.

[Andrew Walsh]

Kugler or Kubler, I think Kub, but I don't have. You might be right on that one. I think it's Coogler and Michael B. Jordan. I will always think of Ian Carmel's tweet. What if there was a slightly less good actor named Scotty B. Pippen?

[Luke Burbank]

Just such a solid tweet.

[Andrew Walsh]

So good. Like, literally. It might be my favorite joke. Anyway, everybody's like, you got to see this in the theater. You got to see in the theater. I've been seeing that non stop and I know almost nothing about it other than Michael B. Jordan plays like twins. He plays both people in Siblings and the Twins.

[Luke Burbank]

And it's vampire related.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is the one thing that I knew it was gonna be scary in some way and like supernatural. But I was a little bit mad at Alan Sepinwall. I guess I wanted, I wanted too little information because I saw Alan Sepenwall put like, same thing everybody else had been posting, like, you have to see this in the theaters. It's so good. And then there's another like blue sky, blue ski. And then his third one was when the vampires start vampiring everybody in the theater. And I stopp. I threw my phone across the room. I'm like, I didn't even know that's a reveal. Well, I wasn't sure. I mean, clearly not. I'll bet you if you read a review of it, it's in the very first line. But I like going into these things as like kind of unknowledgeable as possible, which is usually walk into any room. I have that down on lock. But anyway, I am going to see.

[Luke Burbank]

Me in a world's gym.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'll. I'll report back tomorrow about how good it was. I don't like scary movies. I don't think I like vampire movies. But everybody's like, you got to see this one. So I'll let you know.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it's. It is definitely sounds like a really, really good film. And I am not a vampire movie guy myself, but I might see it just because of all the love. All right, so I finally. We're done filming. I get to look around and realize that, you know, I don't need a 40 million dollar mansion. I just need a Lyft ride back to the hotel. And the guy finally pulls up again. We're. It's a pretty out of the way place. Even though it's in Beverly Hills, this, this mansion, it's like it takes a while to get there. And I'm watching, I'm watching the. I don't know if you've ever had this, but it's like the lift is taking so long to get to me that Lyft is apologizing.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I don't think I've had that.

[Luke Burbank]

Saying, like, are you okay? Your ride seems to be taking longer than normal. And I'm like, yeah, I know. He's not here yet. The guy pulls up, he's in like a Prius or something. And he pulls up and I open the door and I go, here for Luke. And he goes, I bet. I hope so. Or something. Something kind of sarcastic where he's basically like, it better be. Oh, that's what he said. He goes, better be. I was like, better be. First of all, I was kind of half joking because obviously it's going to be me. I'm standing alone on a street of billionaires in front of many security gates. It's obviously me. I've been watching you on the thing. And then he goes, that door is very light. It's like a Prius, right? He goes, that door is very light. Don't show me how strong you are by closing it loud. And he's kind of reaching back across me to keep me from closing the door to firmly. And I'm like, bro, I've been going to World's Gym. I am. I have to show you how yoked I am. So I very carefully try to close the door without, you know, slamming it. And I go, how was that? He goes, that was still pretty loud. And I was like, we're off to the races, me and Rod. So he goes, what are you doing up here? And I go, oh, I was doing a TV story about Seth McFarland. He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, I know him. And I was like, okay, I'm sure you do. And we, we start wending our way down the hill. And this was one of those times where. And I don't mean to be rude about folks that are just trying to make a living and do their thing, but, like, this was where I was wishing he would have observed more closely that I had my AirPods in and was watching the Mariners on Fubo and would have just kind of, like, been like, all right, this is going to be a. It's going to be a quiet ride. It was not a quiet ride. He proceeded to tell me within the first four minutes about all of his sort of financial largesse, which raised the question, you know, what was going on with the driving of the Uber, the Lyft? There are people who have a lot of money and just kind of like. Like to do that stuff for fun. Maybe he's one of those people. But it. It was a weird thing for him to tell me when I didn't ask really quickly about the various homes he owned and the rental homes he had and the. The this and the that. And then. So I'm like, well, I'm locked into this conversation. And I said something like. I could tell he had a New York accent. And I was like, are you from. You're probably not from la. Are you from New York? And he was like, yeah, Brooklyn. And I said, oh, yeah, I lived in Brooklyn for a while. And he goes, yeah, I used to live near Prospect Park. And he said. I forget the exact quote. He said something. He goes, oh, yeah, yeah. I actually was conceived in. In Prospect Park. I go, oh, really? Well, that's crazy. He goes, yeah, under a sycamore tree, you know, which. Which kind of makes me more sicker. And I kind of laugh. And then I realized that's a Jay Z line.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, okay. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

But he wasn't doing it, I think, for effect. I think he was just trying to, like, use a Jay Z line in normal conversation, like, as if it were his own. You mean, as if it were his life story. As if he were. Because, by the way, I think the. Maybe. I think he said he was. Maybe he changed one part of the lyric. So whether. Maybe Jay Z says, I was born under a sycamore tree. And I think this guy said, I was conceived under a sycamore tree.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Yeah, he changed.

[Luke Burbank]

Because being born under sycamore tree in Prospect park would be really crazy. It'd be like your mom went into labor in a park. And by the way, there's a hospital, like, a block away. No one got her to the hospital. Like, he was trying to make this his Origin story. And I think. Hope that I didn't know that was a Jay Z line or something.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's actually. I'm looking this up. So this is from one of the Jay Z records I knew kind of well, because it was. I think the first one that I maybe have. This was The Black Album 3.

[Luke Burbank]

It's like, where his mom is, like, kind of narrating.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly. And so this is the first track called December 4th, which I assume is his birthday. And it does say. So the line is. And I'm going to do it in rhythm here. Okay. No, please. I was conceived. So it is a conception story. I was conceived by Gloria Carter and Oddness Reeves. I'm probably saying Adnus or Oddness wrong. Who made love under the sycamore tree, which makes me a more sicker mc.

[Luke Burbank]

God, I wish marsupial Gurgle was still in business.

[Andrew Walsh]

How did I do there?

[Luke Burbank]

Really, really well.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was me, by the way. That was not the tape of Jay Z.

[Luke Burbank]

What was funny was. I can. It's hard for me to emphasize this enough. I believe this was delivered not as a Jay Z reference, but as a clever line that this person was hoping I, like, didn't know was written by Jay Z. I think he was trying to get, like. He was trying to. Much like me stealing Steven Wright's comedy material at the Stars of Tomorrow competition. I think he was trying to steal Jay Z's comedy material or rapping material and pass it off as his own clever line. And I said like, oh, that's Jay Z. Right. And he goes, maybe, you know, I didn't.

[Andrew Walsh]

I should have asked you an important question before we got to this part in the story. Your driver was not Jay Z, right? No. Seth McFarlane.

[Luke Burbank]

Nope.

[Andrew Walsh]

Does or does not know. Are you saying no? No, he's not.

[Luke Burbank]

He knows Seth MacFarlane. Allegedly. He knows Seth MacFarlane.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right. And he has plenty of money. He's just doing this for the love of driving game.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

And he was conceived very concerned about.

[Luke Burbank]

His door being slam too loudly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly. Classic Jay Z thing there. By the way. There's another, I think, off of the.

[Luke Burbank]

The Blue Album.

[Andrew Walsh]

Of the Blue Album, yes, Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Where he's like, don't slam the Uber door. Don't slam the Prius door. That would be hilarious if Jay Z just recorded an entire track that was don't slam the Prius.

[Andrew Walsh]

Anyway, so it was not Jay Z.

[Luke Burbank]

Though I don't believe it was Jay Z. So we are continuing along. And I like, by the way, that.

[Andrew Walsh]

You did call him out on that, because in the back of my head, I was like, did he forget that it was a Jay Z lyric? Was seriously trying to make this his own. And so you asked him and he's like, oh, I don't know. Maybe. Huh? That was his response.

[Luke Burbank]

He said, maybe. Yeah. And I was like, not maybe. Like, that's a very well known Jay Z line. But, you know, and I don't know if this. I don't think this dynamic is worth mentioning, but he was a black man. I am a white man. I don't know if there was a. I mean, Jay Z is probably the most white appreciated rapper in the world.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, it's like Wu Tang Clan would like a word.

[Luke Burbank]

John Heilman would like a word, sir.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, who's John Heilman?

[Luke Burbank]

He's the guy with the Wu Tang insignia on his iPad.

[Andrew Walsh]

IPad? That's always on MSNPC, right?

[Luke Burbank]

He's just like, he's legally required to bring that iPad around to prove he's down. He's invited to the barbecue.

[Andrew Walsh]

Please nobody comment on it. It's just.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, exactly. No, no, no. It's just a. It's a totally non flex that I just happen to need to show you that I like the Wu Tang at all times. So we continue on this ride and he's telling me many stories of his life. Again, we've now totally departed from the fact that I was there filming with Seth MacFarlane. And it's. This is classically the case with me, which is. I both don't think that's a big deal. I honestly don't. We don't have to talk about it a lot. But it is also. It's weird that we just moved right on from it. From. I know him. I own all these rental houses. I was conceived under a sycamore tree. We've never gone back to the fact that I was there interviewing a fairly major Hollywood celebrity. Again, I. I wouldn't have liked it if we tarried upon it for too long. But just moving right into the minutia of Rod's life was also like a weird. Like, it's one of those people that. It's like you only exist as a sounding board. It must be how you feel co hosting the show with me, Andrew, you only exist to hear me talking about my life and nothing that you're saying. And again, I wasn't volunteering a lot of information at this point. I just realized this was what it was. But it was just strange to me that he. We had. There were no follow up Questions. There was no, like, oh, okay, you were there with a film crew filming this guy. Who do you work for? What you know, what's. When will it air? Is this going to be on tv? There's just like some normal follow up questions, none of which were followed up upon. And also it took probably 15 minutes to get there. So the outbound was about 15 minutes. This was easily a one hour ride home because this guy missed every turn I was watching. He's what kept happening was he wanted to show me like it was like a this is your life Rod edition that nobody signed up for. His phone, which was the map to get back to the hotel, was also where he had all the photos of various women he had dated. His time running a whitewater rafting company in upstate New York. His mountain bike phase, which appeared to be from the mid to early 80s.

[Andrew Walsh]

You're seeing all of this.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm seeing all of this because he is showing me these photos on the phone. And when he's doing it, we are no longer observing the ride home. Like the map to get home, the route. And I now have the route on my phone and I am trying to gently go. Okay, we were gonna. All right, all right. Nope. La Ciena. No. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like I'm trying to need the money. I just realized like, like any other driver wants to get you there as fast as possible so they can pick up another fare. This guy, because he doesn't get. It's not like the old cabbie days, right. Tell me if I'm wrong about this, but back in the day you'd be worried about a cabbie kind of taking you.

[Luke Burbank]

Taking the long way.

[Andrew Walsh]

Literally taking you for a ride. He's proud, right? Exactly. But the meter is running. But.

[Luke Burbank]

And it's a damn shame that doesn't happen more Lyft.

[Andrew Walsh]

You get the money, you get the, you know, you get the price up front to. I think probably to safeguard against that. So this guy is not making any more money by driving you around. He really doesn't care about the money. Look, I'm starting to believe that this really is a passion project for him.

[Luke Burbank]

This might have been Jay Z honestly thinking it might. And that's racist of me to confuse.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

This did not realize this was Jay Z. So we're tooling around now and we just keep missing the turns. And every turn that we miss puts us in like a worse like LA traffic moment to where now it's like we're a mile from the hotel. I could walk it. But we're also 20 to 30 minutes from the hotel because the roads are just completely clogged and congested. And at some point, he's telling me about his son. Sounds like his son is actually a really cool kid. His son's, you know, almost college age and interested in aeronautics. And again, I'm trying to sort of be, you know, trying to be positive about this whole thing, but I'm also just really mad because I know that this ride did not need to take this long. Also, I do think. You think I would know with all the lifts I take. I do think that the pricing is a little bit dynamic. I think the price is an estimate, so I don't. So it's. It's not as bad as a cab, because we've talked about this before. Every time I took a cab in my 20s, I was convinced I was being ripped off. I think with Lyft and Uber, it's kind of somewhere in the middle. It's like the price is. I don't know if the price is totally locked in, but it's mostly locked in. But. But I do like your theory that this is a passion project because there's a lot to point in that direction, including the fact that at some point, we're now just sitting, waiting to take a left on Beverly. And I would say we were there for, conservatively 20 minutes, just. And you know how it is in LA where you get that literal gridlock, the actual definition of gridlock, which is basically nobody. Nobody can go because the cars, like, you need to take a left, but the cars that are coming from the other direction are in the middle of the intersection. And so you can't get into the intersection. And then every time they clear, the light is set up in such a way that the next round of those people fill up the intersection, you just can't get access to it. And so we're sitting and sitting and sitting, and he. He's telling me about his kid. And he said, yeah, I told the. And I told the kid to, you know, he had to learn something, so he learned guitar. Oh, cool. And I was like, that's. That's amazing. That's good to have a hobby. And he goes, yeah, yeah, let me show you some of the kids guitar. And what he shows me is a video of this poor kid being forced to play the Eric Clapton song Layla in the background while my Lyft driver sings into the camera. So what it was was a video of Rod singing with his son playing rhythm guitar in the background. We watched this entire rendition of Layla by the way, Rod, good singer. Actually pretty good singer. But it's like the idea that it was like this, you know, where I was also just a background actor in the movie that Rod's life. It would appear his son is also a background actor in his life. There to learn guitar so he can play the song Layla, which clearly Rod really likes singing.

[Andrew Walsh]

How was the mix? I mean, was the guitar way in the background while he's just like singing right into the phone?

[Luke Burbank]

No, the phone was on a tripod, I believe. And the mix was not terrible. I mean it was echoey. But these, you know, these, these, these camera phone microphones are decent if you're, you know, if you set them up right. And this was fine. Again, sounded better than Kyle Mooney. We should talk about that, by the way. Like that, like. Because you and I in television's Chris Hayes were texting about this recently. Like that's kind of gone over a cliff for me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Uh huh.

[Luke Burbank]

Like the whole. Have you seen any of the movie? The kind of like backstory movie that he's done now? That's in addition to the record and the music video.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, only reference to it. This is one of those things where Luke, I am like, we've talked, we talked about the album quite a bit on this show and I told you like, you were playing some of it for me and I had not pre listened to it and I a Kyle Mooney fan and I just. And it's not like I'm worried about like, oh, I won't like his other stuff now because this will like tinge it in some way. It's not like that. Like, I just have zero interest in this. Like, it just all seems. I don't know if it's not bad. It's just not for me. And like, I kind of don't even. It feels like homework to think, like, I gotta watch this Kyle Mooney thing so that we can talk about it on the show. Which is not how I usually feel about Kyle Mooney stuff.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And, and that's kind of the, the feeling that I'm getting. And then there's this whole like kind of short film where he's working in a very depressing office environment and he just wants to play his music, but he has a terrible job. And it's just, again, it's just kind of, it's. It's weird to me because it is. It's like we get the joke that the, like the acting is bad and the singing is bad and like it's all bad. But, like, where's the next joke? Yeah, and we. We. We're still waiting, okay? So, speaking of still waiting, we're still waiting to take this left on Beverly. We have now watched his rendition of Layla. And then he goes, do you like Jim Croce? And I was like, yeah, you know, as much as the next guy. And he then goes to the next song, which is, again, poor kid in the background. He said, I told my son. My son kept. How did he set this up? He was like, I was talking to my wife, and it was like, the kid was supposed to be learning guitar, and he wasn't. And I just said, I'm tired of hearing about him learning guitar and playing guitar and. And all this. I want him to learn the hardest song there is. So I said, you should learn Operator by Jim Croce, famously. Famously the world's hardest song, okay? And. And he goes. And he. I'll be goddamned. He did it. He learned it. And I was like, thinking in my mind, guess what? You love singing the song Operator by Jim Croce. So we go to the next video, which is him singing Jim Croce with the kid in the background. I can't. I say the kid. The kid's like 20, and he turns to me and he goes, I love this song. I go, yeah, it's a really great song. And he goes, you know, I've played this song for people in this car before, and they tell me it's better than Jim Croce's son. I got a guy. I had a guy in the car the other day. He said, I just saw Jim Cr. Jim Croce's son is trying to make money off of this song, and he's not as good as me. A guy got in the car the other day, and he said, I just saw Jim Croce's son try to do this song. You're better. And that was now the new, weirdest flex I've ever heard in my life. It used to be this guy Barry. Not broadcast Barry, different Barry, saying that he named the Bedazzler, too.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, right.

[Luke Burbank]

And that he painted the paintings that Leo DiCaprio's character allegedly paints in the movie Titanic. I have a new, weirdest flex, and it's. Somebody recently was in my Uber and had been at a Jim Croce Jr. Concert and now told me that I sing the song Operator better than Jim Croce Jr. Does.

[Andrew Walsh]

And just think about all of the. Even if. If there's any truth to the story at all, if there's any truth to it. Like, even if there's a nugget of truth, like, at one point, a different person was in his car. Just think about the path that this person had to follow in order to get to this point as well. You know what I mean? Like, was your driver.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm trying to. I'm trying to see if there's a Jim Croce Jr. Right now.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, right. I mean, did he say Junior or.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, there's an A.J. croce. Okay, so there is a son, and he's holding a guitar in the photo I'm looking at.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. I mean, I believe if you're Jim Croce's son, I mean, often in the. Especially in the singer songwriter space, it's not uncommon for you guys. I mean, not to be too modern, but you got your Woody's Guthrie, your arco's Guthrie. Like, you have your. Oh, shoot. Who are the two brothers that I always make fun of? I make fun of the lesser brother who did the Dollar Bill song.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, is it James Taylor?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. And Livingston Taylor.

[Luke Burbank]

Livingston Taylor.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you for bailing me out there.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm looking at a headline that says, AJ Croce reflects late father Jim Croce's legacy on tour. So, unfortunately, my Lyft driver story is starting to kind of have more of the ring of Truth, which I really didn't want.

[Andrew Walsh]

He's like, I showed this guy a video of me smashing a watermelon, and he says, I just got back from a Gallagher 2 show, and I'm telling you, you smashed those watermelons.

[Luke Burbank]

I handed this guy a sheet of plastic when he got into the back of my car and told him, cover yourself. You're about to see something that Gallagher Jr. Could never pull off.

[Andrew Walsh]

By the way, I do know the song Operator. When you said Operator, I'm like, I don't know that song. So I looked at the lyrics here, and of course, it's. That's just the way. No, no. But that's not the way. It feels like the people who didn't know the song, they just needed to hear me sing that one line. And now they know what we're talking about.

[Luke Burbank]

Now we've died, they've locked in.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. I am sitting on something that popped into my head that I want to talk to you about regarding parents and their children singing songs and recording it. What's wrong?

[Luke Burbank]

This Your parents or my parents?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, it's something from pop culture, but if I bring it up right now, it's going to totally derail. Your story. So I'm trying to respond.

[Luke Burbank]

No, that's it. That's the end of the story. I got here.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

I got here. Actually, what I did was I literally got out of the car a block from the hotel and just walked the rest of the way, and that's the end of the story. So now we can shift into pop culture parenting.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I will say, well, if we're leaving the story there, I would be interested in you looking at your app and looking at the route and seeing kind of how bad the route was, because the app will, like, you know, save all of your rides. And so you could look at that and just see potentially even how much. I mean, maybe not time you wasted, but certainly miles wasted. And I'm also curious in knowing, like, how did you handle the rating and tipping situation? I mean, you clearly.

[Luke Burbank]

My guy has five. Five stars. I did not tip. I did not. But I gave him five stars.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, really? Interesting. But you did. You did withhold the tip because of the ride being basically bad.

[Luke Burbank]

The ride was bad.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, we. It took us way longer to get to the place. I mean, granted, when I went out there, it was, you know, 11:00am When I came back, it was five. There was more traffic. But regardless, there was a much more direct route that we kept missing because we were looking at his time leading whitewater rafting tour in upstate New York. Sure.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, very.

[Luke Burbank]

Again. And I guess I should tip of the cap to this guy for giving me some real content because I did not ever know what the next thing he was going to say was. And I give him credit for that. He was not a predictable person.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Okay, so this is a. I mean, just a ridiculously huge shift in the conversation here because I want to go back to talk about part of a TV show that you and I have talked about a lot. One particular scene that drives me crazy. And you and I never talked about this. And my friend. That's right, I'm bringing you back into the world of severance. In fact, I believe I'm bringing you back into the world of severance season one. So we've had.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, good. That's the one I understood.

[Andrew Walsh]

We have years. We had years to talk about this. I'm going to bring this up now in the middle of your story about banana cuckoo bananas lift drivers. But speaking of, like, kind of recording yourself, singing and performing amateur music, I want to try to do this without spoiling anything, but I might have to. I might have to change course if you don't remember, spoiling season one or season one? Yeah. This is a scene from season one.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm not going to say I think you can spoil season one.

[Andrew Walsh]

I probably can. I'm going to try to see if you remember this without me spoiling it. Do you remember a funeral scene where a character who does not survive season one has a funeral and in it, as part of the funeral celebration, I believe, in the chapel or the church, they play a video of him and his like kind of young adult daughter playing, I want to say an Eric Clapton song. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

[Luke Burbank]

Sort of. Can you give me more details?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. Okay, so now for folks who haven't seen season one, maybe skip ahead by 30 or 40 seconds. I'll tell you who I'm talking about here, Luke. It's the fella who we meet in the very beginning of season one. He's the guy who was the main character's best friend, Adam Scott.

[Luke Burbank]

Adam Scott's best friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Remember, remember, the action begins with Adam Scott's best friend getting out of there. And he's the first person.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yeah. And he shows up and he shows he's done the. Whatever the he's been. What's the procedure that. The.

[Andrew Walsh]

Severed, I believe. Right. Is that the word?

[Luke Burbank]

But, but like, But. No, no, the opposite of unsevered.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Yeah. I'm blanking on what that word was. Yeah, I'm really. I was.

[Luke Burbank]

Then he dies. He dies from basically the. He dies from the effects of the.

[Andrew Walsh]

Procedure of it not working. Well, yes, he's hiding out in Adam Scott's house for a while. Then he kind of like his two worlds or his brain can't handle the two worlds kind of colliding. And that's how we sort of start to learn about the. The what's going on in the brain chemistry. Well, they show there's a scene and we're in spoiler territory here. So I'm just gon it all to help jog your memory. And it's so embarrassing that I don't have any. Any of the characters names in front of me anymore. And I am so leaked out of my head the moment I got done watching the series finale. But what's her name? Patricia Arquette. Has to during the funeral. Cobell. Remember, she goes in. Or Covell or Covelle or Cobel. What did you say? I can't.

[Luke Burbank]

I think it's Cobel.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that wasn't me correcting you. I'm in my own head about this now. But anyway, speaking of in it's my own Jim. She has to go back and remove the chip from his brain herself.

[Luke Burbank]

Right, right, right, right, right.

[Andrew Walsh]

And the distraction, the reason she's able to do that to the corpse or cadaver is because she's sneaking around behind the scenes taking this piece of his. Taking this thing out of his brain. While they're showing, as sort of a tribute to his life, this video that he apparently made with his adult daughter. I believe she's playing guitar and he's singing. Maybe, or maybe they both have guitars. Do you? At all. It's. They're literally showing this video in front of the church or chapel or wherever. And it's one of those things where just there's so. I don't know how to describe this. It's like it's shaky camera as if this was filmed in their garage or something like that. But there's a bunch of cuts in it. You know, like there are there, there are cuts in the scene as if there were more than one camera in the garage. And it was then edited to get edited together. And I understand that like we live in the modern age, although God knows what era severance is in, but like we live in a modern age where people can piece together really impressive professional looking videos, obviously. And they post them to a thing called Tiki Talky. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it. I understand that you can do a lot with the technology these days, but I'm telling you, they were going for both here. They were going for this like 90s esque, shaky, like we're literally a garage band kind of thing. I used to do with my friends back in the 90s when we were children. And you would have one camera quarter, then it would tape the whole thing, you know. But this was like, it was supposed to be sort of a little bit bad like that. Except there were cuts like in the video that people were watching in the church. There were edits and close ups that would not have been in this janky production. Does that make any sense to you? I watched that scene twice and I hated it. I'm just like, right. Small things. I'm just like, that's not what this video would look like. You wouldn't be. And again, don't get at me saying that people could have. There could have been two cameras in the garage. I'm sure there could have been. But that is not the vibe of this garage cam that they were going for.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. It's like either it should be this thing that this guy made or it shouldn't be. But he wouldn't have made it this way.

[Andrew Walsh]

He just.

[Luke Burbank]

That would not have happened that just. By the way, I'm trying to like do a little back end research on this and I'm like. But if you put Eric Clapton funeral in the amount you know what it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is, it's a Metallica. Sorry, speaking.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, that's really a different songs because. Because what it turns out is everyone in the world who has died has used Eric Clapton at their funeral.

[Andrew Walsh]

I wonder if that's why. I wonder if that's why I thought that here.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Like Tears in Heaven, I think is like the number one funeral song in America. Oh, it's Metallica.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Okay. Yes. Enter Sandman. If I email you this link, will it take down our entire.

[Luke Burbank]

No, I'll look at it on my phone.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. This is so bad. Like I have. I can't believe I. I'm just like should.

[Luke Burbank]

I brought this up with James Hetfield when I was chatting with him recently.

[Andrew Walsh]

So it's like they roll a TV out in front of like, you know, like at the front of the chapel or whatever it is and it's like it's a cringy scene anyway. They both have guitars and I'll play a little bit of the audio of this. This is like a bunch of very, very sad people in the chapel watching this video presentation on kind of an old school tube tv I should say. Tuck you in, warm within Keep me free from sin Til the sandman.

[Luke Burbank]

Sleep.

[Andrew Walsh]

With one eye open Gripping your pillow and there's supposed to be a very, very low. His daughter is of course in the pews as well watching this and getting emotional, this memory she has of her dad. But the way I'm watching this now, there are at least three cameras in the garage, but all of them are like really shaky. And again, very kind of 90s VHSE yet. Wait, how many cameras you have in there? Like how did you edit this thing together to be like both? Like, look, it's like professionally janky in a way that drives me nuts.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. And you, I bet you are the not the only person I bet you are on a short list of people who noticed that. And by the way, that is not offered as like a burn. Like I bet you that very few people notice that thing that you notice. But you're totally right. Like if you're going to make it janky, just you got to commit to it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. Make it one. Have it one shaky camera, probably on a tripod because it really does make me Wonder like you two just. You both have guitars. You're just having a father daughter moment in the garage. There's like, you know, and it's like an unfinished garage or whatever. It's like, you know, the garage fridge out there, you see lawn chairs. It's like really, really. It's literally garage rock. Yet I think you have at least three people who are recording this. But if you're going through. If you're going through, you know, the trouble of getting three people in your garage. First of all, who are they? Are they other family members? And I would think that like, put. Let's put one on a tripod.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm watching this, Angela.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let's put one on a tripod.

[Luke Burbank]

Never been more right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you, you. And I'm right a lot. I mean, people say that about. Agree to disagree.

[Luke Burbank]

Tomato, tomato.

[Andrew Walsh]

Usually that's the first thing people say.

[Luke Burbank]

You're actually right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. This is like, I would expect them to do that thing where they put in some fake tracking issues or a time code.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

You know, like whatever. Like a high eight camera might have done back in the day.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

But you're absolutely right. Like, this is far too produced.

[Andrew Walsh]

There's a one shot on her, a one shot on him, a two shot of them. That's at least. Least three cameras, I believe.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And Cobell is now sneaking out the back of the Lutheran church. Anyway, this is now just me watching season one on my phone and narrating it.

[Andrew Walsh]

We were at the same exact place you mentioned Cobell. I was like, yes, she is. And I was like, oh, we're totally in sync here. I did such a terrible job of setting that up because I couldn't remember any of the characters names. I'm so embarrassed about that. But at least I got. But at least I got it out of my system.

[Luke Burbank]

That's actually such a. That's actually a way better. Now let's do a put up. If we were doing a put down. That's actually such a great song for them to have like the father daughter doing a version of like, better than Tears in Heaven, you know?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, like it's kind of. Because it's a little edgy, but it's the kind of thing that a dad might be into from his rocking days. But then he, like, wants to teach his daughter. It's actually a. It's a very good choice for a song for them to have played.

[Andrew Walsh]

And it's not a deep cut. Like, obviously Metallica was well known before this. In fact, like, I'm old enough to remember the Black album coming out and, you know, had. It had Enter Sandman on it and. Well, I won't. I remember they had a couple of other songs on there too, that were like, pretty mainstream hits. And I think Metallica before that was really for the metal heads, Right. And then Enter Sandman was like a huge hit. So I like the fact that it's not some deep. They're not trying to be cool about it either.

[Luke Burbank]

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 rattle D. Hey, let's thank some dazzling donors. These wonderful, generous folks are donating a dazzling amount of dough to the program. It's how we're able to do this. This is 100% listener supported podcasting. Oh, look who it is. It's our friend, Theresa Truex. Theresa in Seattle, Washington. I saw Theresa recently at a livewire. What up, Teresa? Teresa says, I just love you, my imaginary friendos, and I'm so happy to be able to support you and tbtl. You make me laugh, you entertain me. You've gotten me through some very dark times. And for all of those things and many more, I am so grateful. I want the listeners to know that I too am a residential real estate broker who takes such joy in helping my clients buy and sell home at the beginning of every year when I write my business plan. Ooh, that's a good idea. We should write a business plan.

[Andrew Walsh]

I got it. It's all up here.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Exactly. It's all between your ears. The first thing I do, first thing I put down is that I only work with nice people, which pretty much describes all of the tens. I help people in Seattle and on the south part of Whidbey island and absolutely love what I do. I make sure my clients know what's going on every step of the way. And I keep them calm and often laughing as we go through a process which can be very stressful. My focus is always on my clients and what's best for them. If you or someone you know is interested in buying or selling a home, reach out to me. So let's see. I guess they would. I'm not seeing a web link, so I guess you Google real estate agent Teresa Truex.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, and that's T R U E X. And I'm happy to help with this one as well. This is not tradio. You know, I say I do not get involved in helping people connect.

[Luke Burbank]

It's all about boundaries and you have very strong boundaries when it comes to tradio.

[Andrew Walsh]

But I do anything for a dazzling donor. So if you're trying to get a hold of Teresa, you can email me andrewbtl.net and I'm sure that I can put you two in touch. But I'm guessing that a Google in a good Google and will do ya.

[Luke Burbank]

So true. So true. So true. X Theresa says love you too. What you do is so important. Well, Teresa, what you have done for TBTL is so important. We really do appreciate you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh shoot. I'm sorry.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, was was that there was still a sound effect.

[Andrew Walsh]

There was some music going on in the background. I potted. I was getting ready for the mice.

[Luke Burbank]

I couldn't quite tell. I'm on my road kit. I couldn't tell if that was you making a sound or if that was a an audio.

[Andrew Walsh]

It was the dazzling donor music coming up really sharply and then down again really quickly as I realized my mistake.

[Luke Burbank]

Teresa, thank you so much. Maestro. We forgive you. On your mark. On your mark. Get set, get set now. Ready, ready, go. Everybody rattles down. Let's also thank Jamie Julian out there in Columbia, Maryland.

[Andrew Walsh]

Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. Royals fan. They pulled it out yesterday. I know that you witnessed one of the most, Luke. The Royals were literally, I believe, if not one pitch, one out away from winning. They've been struggling lately. And it was two outs, top of the ninth inning, and their closer loaded the bases and then loud allowed a two run single, I believe to almost lose the game. The Royals did everything in the top and ninth inning to try to lose that game last night, but they they triumphed in the 12th.

[Luke Burbank]

So they pulled a Mariners relievers. Do you know that the Mariners relievers have the fewest strikeouts of any relief core this season? And they lead the league in ground ball outs, which is bad.

[Andrew Walsh]

Ground ball outs are bad.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, that means people are making a lot of contact.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And everything that's not a ground ball out is a ground ball hit. I'm just going with what Aaron Goldsmith said last night, which was it's not good when your bullpen leads the league in ground Paul outs.

[Andrew Walsh]

But they're also leading the league in strikeouts. Did you say?

[Luke Burbank]

No, they. That was a previous season. So they've gone from leading the league in strikeouts, which is a really good thing, to leading the league and basically hitters getting contact on them, which is a bad thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, that's interesting. I totally missed the point of that. But anyway, I was thinking I keep.

[Luke Burbank]

Waiting for Bizarro to do something good so I can say how Bizarro in the text chain. And he just keeps doing things that are bad.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, you know what I used to say to Genevieve? I think because he was with us last season as well. I'm like, it would be funny if there was a Bizarro Bizardo who's good at pitching. That's a good thing. He's got a little mustache.

[Luke Burbank]

So Jamie Julian's in Columbia, Maryland, but is a Royals fan.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I can't remember her journey with that, but I know she's a Rose fan. She and I have brought down on that before.

[Luke Burbank]

Jamie says, howdy, friendos. Note the lack of an exclamation point there. It's nothing. You did well, mostly, but we'll save that for another time. Ooh, ouch. Jamie, you know that's going to keep me up tonight.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. But it's definitely a more of a Luke thing. I can't imagine.

[Luke Burbank]

No, it's. I'm definitely the. I'm the target of that. I'm just a tired and disheartened federal employee who is struggling to keep it together right now. Now. But two things have given me comfort during this onslaught. Number one, a tbtl. Of course, major thanks to Andrew for helping me find two misbehaving 2017 episodes so I can belatedly consume the entire Collector series. By the way, I just finished the week long RV trip to Austin. Classic.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was fun.

[Luke Burbank]

So you tracked down a couple of episodes for Jamie.

[Andrew Walsh]

I did forget about that. That was somewhat recently. Yeah. I'll tell you what, in fact, okay, I'm going to. Hello, Pandora's Box. Would you like to be opened? When we first moved our entire archive over when we went independent, it was a huge project with a lot of ins, a lot of outs, and there were some listeners who are like, oh, there are, you know, a few missing episodes here and there. And it's unclear what caused that. And somebody even had a list of them, maybe dozen, maybe. I don't know what it was, but at the time, there was so much going on. We were starting our new business. We were just starting the. Our first TBT L A thon as independence. Like, there was just no time for me to go, like, hunting around for like a handful of randomly missing TBTL episodes. Well, I think that Jamie, upon her re listening, maybe stumbled on a couple of them and I was able to resurrect them, which is like, very tonally appropriate for the season. And now I'm thinking of those people who reached out to me a couple of years ago and I never got back to them. So if you are somebody, and again, this is where the box opens. But if you are somebody who is looking for specific episodes that somehow got lost in the shuffle, I might have the brain space to be able to help you now.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, well, thank you for helping Jamie on that. That voyage of discovery number two from Jamie. Things that have been helping helping Jamie get through this onslaught. The new Nico Case memoir, the Harder I Fight the More I Love youe. Her story is almost unbelievable. Sad and so bleak at times, but also full of some real moments of joy and hope. I can't recommend it enough. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream. What the f. At the top of your lungs. Buy your copy wherever books are sold to support the Northwest musical treasure. Sending love to everyone who is struggling right now under the weight of all of this crap. And of course, sending my undying thanks thanks to all three business boys for the friendship bracelets, literally and figuratively. Well, Jamie, we're sending love right back to you. Good luck with everything. I mean, when I am thinking about the things in my life that I wish were different, I am reminded that there are folks that are working for the federal government that have worked hard and are good at their jobs that have to every day wonder am I going to have a job at the end of this day? And that really sucks and that should not be how it is. So Jamie, I'm sorry about that. Also, her bringing up Nico Case reminds me that Nico Case is on a pretty special list of celebrities that I've alienated by asking them to be on Livewire too much. That list includes Ben Gibbard, Nico Case, who else is on there? There's like one other famous person who in the darker days of Livewire, I said hey, would you want to be on the show one too many times? And then they just stopped responding. And you know, I consider that to be self care for Nico Case that she no longer responds to my text.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good for her boundaries.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, exactly. So Jamie, thank you for supporting tbtl. We could not do this without you. Same to you, Teresa. Hello and welcome to Top Story. Andrew, have you seen any other than in the show sheet, have you seen any rumblings about this story out of Australia? Which is actually kind of a dark story. But the press conference, not the press conference. The news interview goes in a direction that I absolutely did not see coming. So basically there was a carjacking in Queensland and there was a Couple of sisters who observed this carjacking. And in fact, I believe their mother was threatened by the person who did the carjacking. This person had hurt some people and then like carjacked a car and then crashed and hurt some more people and then got out of the car with a weapon. It was actually a pretty, pretty sad, pretty scary situation. But what is absolutely wild. And I don't know if this will translate as audio, but the women who are being interviewed, identical twins and they are just speaking simultaneously. Andrew, Like a significant portion of this news interview is done with two people speaking as if they are one person. And this is never commented on in the news interview.

[Andrew Walsh]

They're dressed the same. I saw. They're just like this. I did see this bouncing around.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, it is never commented upon the high weirdness of this situation of these two twins. But I'll just play you some of the audio. Again, I can't stress this enough. These are two people who are not the same person who are standing next to each other dressed in matching sort.

[Andrew Walsh]

Of medical scrubs and stylized. I mean, their hair is hair styled.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly the same like they are. They are, you know, they're dead ringers. They are identical twins. Here we go. I'll play the tape. Witnesses are recounting some of the drama that unfolded on the sunshine coat. Again, I'm wondering if this. This is the news anchor. She's in the studio. I wonder if she saw the tape before she read this because this is a very dispassionate read. Witnesses is a very loose. I mean, it's not a loose term. They are witnesses. But, like, if you'd watch the tape, you would have, you would have said something. He would not have just said witnesses. Like you went around with a microphone and got a vox pop. Like, this is something very different than that. So I think that this news reader needs to preview the tape before she reads the intro. Just this afternoon, two sisters have told how their mother and man raced to help when the carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way only. Oh, by the way, they're just naming Rhodes Steve Irwin Way in Australia.

[Andrew Walsh]

And I'm seeing that these two new Steve Irwin. Am I giving anything away there? I'm scrolling through this.

[Luke Burbank]

No, it doesn't come up in the interview. I found that out later when I was deep diving on these twins. So they're on. They were near Steve Irwin Way because it's near where, like a Steve Irwin, he was a Crocodile Hunter RIP it's where there was like a Steve Irwin, like Wildlife, something. And they were like, they apprenticed under Steve Irwin and they have their own wild bird sanctuary or something. None of that is brought up in this, but it makes more sense. When I heard Steve Irwin Way, I was like, is every road in Australia named for Steve Irwin? No, just this one. That's where his wildlife thing is. Okay. To find the gun wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. Here's some of what they had to say. And one guy, he was up there with our mum and he, he, he went up there and he was coming back down towards us and he goes, run, he's got a gun. And oh, our heart started to pound. And I said, well, mum, where's mum? And poor mum was stuck up there. But apparently our brave mum, she goes, are you all right? Because he had all blood all over his face. And he goes, I'll shoot you. She goes, hey, I'm here to help. And mum distracted him to make him look the other way. And he looked the other way. And mama ran into the bush behind the fence. Fence. And the guy goes to her, I'll find you and I'll shoot you all. I was thinking about when, when we were running. I hope he doesn't fire. Fire. Yeah. We were so blessed. How close to him do you think you were? Well, see, he was up there and we were passed out when you. Driveway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't think of all of that at the time. No, you just run for your life. I love that. Where they finally diverged was one said, you run for your life and one said you run for your safety. Like, that seems like the easiest part of this improv game. I was going to run for your or fill in the blank.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is literally an improv exercise. I've literally heard Paul F. Tompkins do it.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen, I think, used to do a song version of it on Weekend Update where one of them would start singing a song and the other had to sing along with it.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's exactly what this is.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, but it's a lifestyle. Like, I mean, it raises a lot of questions. I mean, clearly this is kind of their thing. And in fact, there are other articles about how they talk at the same time. Like when you go to the article I sent you and you click on some hyperlinks, you end up at other articles about how like these kind of wacky twins speak the same. So this is kind of their move, but in the context of this very serious thing where I do believe somebody lost their life and their mother was in A lot of danger. It's. I. I mean, they're still. They're staying with it. Like, it feels to me like a parlor trick that you might dispense of when the subject of your mother almost losing her life is what's going on. Like. Like, is it fun for them to do this, do you think?

[Andrew Walsh]

I do like the fact that they. In this article you sent to me from the Daily Mail, the video isn't. I mean, it might be linked in here, but it's not obviously embedded. But there are some photos, and there's a photo of those two talking into a microphone, dressed exactly the same, styled exactly the same. And it does say identical twins. This is the caption. Bridget and Paula Powers have gone viral after giving a perfectly in sync interview. So at least the capt caption person is acknowledging the fact that it is an in sync interview is what makes this really stand out. My guess, though, to answer your question, is I'll bet you they don't notice it as much as we notice it anymore. Like, because these just their life. Yeah. Are you guessing that these women are maybe, I don't know, 50s maybe? Something like that?

[Luke Burbank]

I guess mid-50s maybe.

[Andrew Walsh]

And so they've probably just been doing this their entire life and it's like a true bond now. You know what I mean? I would be very shocked to think that they think of it as a parlor game at all. I'll bet you they just think of it as their life. I mean, there is not one photo of these two where they're not dressed exactly the same.

[Luke Burbank]

Mm. I wonder again. I think you're absolutely right. I think this is just like, you know, reflex and muscle memory for them at this point. But I wonder how they know who's going to start saying the words, like, if that's just. If they just go with, you know, their feeling on it or like, I wonder how they work some of this stuff out. Like, if. If there are certain topics that one of them takes the lead on and then the other follows and then, like, are they guessing? Is one of them guessing what the. The other one is going to say next? How does. Or are they just in a flow state? Like, I wonder how on a practical level, how this works.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, you. You were watching it. I wasn't seeing it. It sounded to me and tell me if I'm wrong. It sounded to me like one of them definitely is taking the lead on this one. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, no interchanging. That's what's crazy.

[Andrew Walsh]

So there is. So it isn't like one is always just piping in to say the other word. They're actually one is not like the alpha lead. Oh, okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, they. They alternate and it's like they have some intuitive, instinctive thing now where it's like, okay, now it's this one's time to talk. And now I'm back filling. And now it's my time to talk. And she's back filling.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's interesting. That's difficult.

[Luke Burbank]

I. When I watched this video, I really thought it was like some kind of. Of an not AI, but like basically somebody had just kind of taken this kind of kooky woman and then split. Screened it and then, you know, delayed it a little bit. So she was kind of talking with herself. Like, I went and checked a few sources to make sure this was a real thing because I thought I was getting scammed by the Internet.

[Andrew Walsh]

You are right, though. I think you. Maybe you set it up this way or you wrote in your notes, like, surreal. Surreal is the. The word for this. Like, this is something that you would put in a surreal movie and then not comment on. Right. It's just like.

[Luke Burbank]

Do you feel like you said that the headline writer noted this, this. But do you feel like the reporter, the person out there talking to them should have said something in the piece? Like, again, it's a serious story. It's, you know, it's a person. Somebody lost their life. This was a carjacking. It's all these bad things. But should. Somewhere in there, the reporter had said it was witnessed by two sisters who kind of talk like they're one person.

[Andrew Walsh]

Or at least you say they. I think they said sisters. They could have said identical twins. Because I think that just sets. You don't have to, like, you don't have to weigh in too much on it, but at least it sets it up in a way that is like.

[Luke Burbank]

Manage our expectations, give us a. Give us a heads up about what we're about to see. Because that's. I think that's what's. First of all, the whole thing is just a bit odd. But what's extra odd about it is there's no telegraphing it. There's like, from the anchor in the studio to the person who's doing the voiceover, nobody is letting. Nobody is preparing us for what we are about to witness as the viewer.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are you shocked that they don't have a podcast? And that sounds like an obvious joke, but I'm not even joking. I'm being sort of like. It sort of seems like if this is what they're known for.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

You'd think they would have audio. Yeah. Kind of parlayed it into something. I would listen to that after this. Would you. That was my next question. Like, in all seriousness, like, how did that make you feel listening to that? It made me feel a little uncomfortable. I don't know if it's a. Relax.

[Luke Burbank]

When they synced up, it felt really good.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, right.

[Luke Burbank]

You know what I mean? Like, it was like. Oh, you know, we were talking about car washing the other day and when I was at the. The local wash man. In my town, I found something. Andrew, that was so satisfying. It turns out on the. So in the second row of my car on the passenger side where you basically like would roll the window, you know, has power windows where you would roll the windows up or down. That little thing had a plastic sheet over it cover that I did not know about until I was vacuuming the car out the other day and I took that thing off and ooh, I was high for the rest of the day.

[Andrew Walsh]

Y. That's a good. Well, you all didn't you also huff a lot of.

[Luke Burbank]

I did. I crushed it up and huffed it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right?

[Luke Burbank]

No, I huffed to the COVID Oh, nice.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's how you do it. That's fantastic.

[Luke Burbank]

100% flora. What is it PFCS or something now? But. Oh, man, that was such a good feeling. I loved that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do we have any interest in. I don't think we do, honestly. Because I can't fast forward this.

[Luke Burbank]

Asked and answered.

[Andrew Walsh]

I am. I see that they. These two twins. It looks like maybe just last night were on the Jimmy Kimmel show. But the link that I'm finding to it is just via Instagram and so I can't fast forward to the good parts on this. So maybe we just let it go. But yeah, they're. They're having their moments now. Or they're.

[Luke Burbank]

I knew it was only a matter of time. I mean, again, it's. I guess it's sort of bittersweet that it took this very sad event where somebody lost their life for this moment to happen. But it was only a matter of time before these two were on Kimmel.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, you could. Going back 20 years like this was faded. It was written in the stars.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Luke, I know that time is a little bit tight for you over there in La La Land. Hollywood, if you will.

[Luke Burbank]

Beverly Hills. Ish.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right.

[Luke Burbank]

So World's Gym territory.

[Andrew Walsh]

The World's Gym. I was gonna say. Sorry. I got distracted there. There is a very real chance you did not say World's Gym. I mean, that is the irony.

[Luke Burbank]

No, I have a feeling I did.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was trying to. To pay a bill last minute while you were doing your intro, you were.

[Luke Burbank]

Writing a check your butt didn't cash.

[Andrew Walsh]

And I. When I asked you that at the beginning of the show, I was honestly asking. And so, no, I think I know if you ended up not making that mistake and I just got in your head, this whole.

[Luke Burbank]

This is one of those times where the listeners know more about, yes, you know what's happened than we do, which is a very weird position to be in. But I think I kind of did say worlds, Jim. And I think I don't want to belabor this, but part of it is, first of all, I've never been to a Gold's Gym, so it's not front of mind for me. Also, I grew up in a Christian culture where there was a lot of people wearing T shirts that said Lord's Gym. Oh, bench press this. It was Jesus bench pressing across. So I've got Lord's Gym. I don't really know Gold's Gym, and it's obscured by a tree, as I mentioned before. Palm tree. Thank you. Mm. Who can remember the word palm tree when you're looking at one?

[Andrew Walsh]

Did you say palms, Jim?

[Luke Burbank]

No.

[Andrew Walsh]

That sounds like something I would do. I'm not gonna work for not having the word palm at the front of your mind. Like, I. Again, I shudder to think about my.

[Luke Burbank]

Setup for that, Andrew. I'm staring at a palm tree, and I could not. I could not summon the word palm.

[Andrew Walsh]

Anyway, what I was gonna say was, I don't think we're gonna do a traditional email vmail segment here. But one thing I did a couple of weeks ago that I really enjoyed was I had a bunch of voicemails from listeners that I put into a little montage and shared at the end of the show, and I think I'm going to do that again today. So listeners, keep listening after the power out here, if you're interested in hearing, because, again, these are kind of the voicemails that people will leave on our voicemail line. Sometimes it's not exactly clear where to fit them into the show, but hearing them kind of all together always gives me a really nice feeling of. Of ten's community and what's on people's minds. So we'll do that again today.

[Luke Burbank]

Nice. All right, well, everybody stick around for that. In the mean. You know what I realized yesterday, Andrew? But I said, go Mariners, and then they lost. I got to stop doing that. And I this is how much we live in each other's heads is how much you live in my head. I was when I finally was able to escape Rod's clutches in the lift and I was able to get to the hotel and watch my Mariners on food boat, what I realized was, or what I wondered was if you were somewhere being like every time Luke says go Mariners, they lose. So Luke needs to stop doing that because I do need to stop doing that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I never even. Is this something that you've been sort of tracking a pattern of really? No, I was.

[Luke Burbank]

Anecdotally.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really?

[Luke Burbank]

No, anecdotally. And. And it seems like when I've said that it's been a bad outcome. So I'm not going to say that today. And we'll see how they do against the Boston Red Sox.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay? Yeah. Yeah, we'll see. I missed that entire game yesterday, or almost. I only saw the worst part at the end because I was doing other things. But I'll try to maybe keep an eye on it today. It's unclear whether or not I bring good luck or bad luck to these situations.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, let's see how me not saying that those words that I almost just said does. We'll see how it goes and we'll report back tomorrow. All right everybody, have a great rest of your Wednesday. We will see you tomorrow with more. Oh, I'll be in Chicago though, so I'm sure I'll have many more travel related annoyances to bore you all with. So we'll see you then. In the meantime, have a great Wednesday. Take care of yourselves, please. Remember, no mountain too tall and good luck to all. Hey, this is Russell from Kennewick, Washington.

[Andrew Walsh]

Just want to drop quick note. I got my colonoscopy a little bit ago and it's all due to the inspiration of Luke and Mr. Walsh and everything. Thinking I should probably get that done. So I done did it and nothing of interest is the result, which I guess is the best result, I suppose. Thank you very much. Bye bye.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh man, I was so much hoping that I would be the last caller. This is Shauna from north of Spokane and I have a two year old duck, a male duck and I don't have a female partner anymore and he's super aggressive. So I was hoping to get on here and say I've got a two year old silver appleyard drake, which is similar to a mallard but prettier and I was either looking to find him a new home or to find him a mate. Anything in the mallard type of duck would be great, but I guess I won't get the chance to do that today. I did think that would be fun for Tradio, though. You guys were awesome today. Really super enjoyed it. I love what you do and I appreciate you as an individual.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bye.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, friendos. It's Mike in Columbia, South Carolina. I was eating a plain bagel today, and a song popped into my head. Thought you might appreciate it. It's sung to a familiar tune and.

[Andrew Walsh]

Goes something like this.

[Luke Burbank]

Plain bagel. The plainest bagel I've ever had. Plain bagel. Danny from Arizona here. And I apologize in advance, but when I kept hearing Luke use the word squatting over and over again, this came to my mind and now I share it with you. Squatting.

[Andrew Walsh]

Squatting is the opposite of sitting.

[Luke Burbank]

Some people would say that that is standing.

[Andrew Walsh]

But squatting is not a wonderful thing to do.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my God. This is Kirk. And I also have always hated it when people use party as a verb. I have hated it for so long that I wrote a song about it all the way back in 1995. And I remember actually playing this with my grunge band. And here's just the first line. I won't bother you with the whole thing. I have used party as a verb. Hey, dummies.

[Andrew Walsh]

Kate here.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm listening to 4428 and y'all are talking about letter writing. Andrew and I also used to be an avid letter writer. Multiple pages update my friends on, like, every aspect of my life. But it made me think you were talking about writing in a spiral on a page. And I practiced and got good enough at writing backwards in cursive. So I would write letters backwards. So you would have to either hold it up to a light or hold it up to a mirror in order.

[Andrew Walsh]

To read it, which I thought was fun.

[Luke Burbank]

And then I also found some stationary ones that was like blank puzzles. And so I would write a short letter as a puzzle and send it. It's so fun. I keep thinking that I would love to get back to doing that, but I don't know. I don't believe in my follow through.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hey, Luke, Andrew and John.

[Luke Burbank]

This is Harrison calling in from Washington, D.C. north Virginia. I wanted to share an exciting TVTLE moment I had today. We got to meet at an event I got to present to Jonathan Reese Davies, actor, probably within tv, most notable.

[Andrew Walsh]

For his role as Grimly the Battle.

[Luke Burbank]

Troll in the Lord of the Rings. I just want to let you guys know, it took everything in me not.

[Andrew Walsh]

To address him as Grimly the Battle.

[Luke Burbank]

Troll, a reference that would make no sense to anybody, even the room full of library nerds who were there to geek out over beating Gimli the Dwarf Dummies. Nick, Connecticut. I love the voicemail idiot so much. Not because I want to hear my own voice, I don't care. But I just. I listened to all of them and I was absolutely delighted that other people are just calling in about mundane, various things. So it brought me true joy. So please continue that, because it made my entire day. So there you go. Okay, bye.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hi, my name is Pudu, and I.

[Luke Burbank]

Have a joke for you. Why is the egg so happy?

[Andrew Walsh]

Why is the egg so happy?

[Luke Burbank]

Because he wasn't spoiled. Thank you. Hey, dummies. Hey. I'm just sitting in my car in a mall parking lot and listen, you guys talk about the Minecraft movie and Chicken Jockey and Rocky Horror, and it's just taking me all back. And I'm just calling to say I love you guys. Going through a really stressful, intense time with my job right now and just appreciate what you do every day. The smile on my face keep me sane. So thank you so much. That's it. Power out. Power out.