#4473 Speedball Air Will Get You There

Summary

Episode #4473: "Speedball Air Will Get You There" – Detailed Summary

Release Date: May 23, 2025
Hosts: Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh
Podcast: TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

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Introduction: Kicking Off with Banter

The episode begins with Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh engaging in their signature playful banter, setting a light-hearted tone for the show.

Luke Burbank [00:00]: "We only have to make small talk."

Andrew Walsh [00:01]: "For 8 minutes and 45 seconds."

This exchange highlights their comfort and camaraderie, preparing listeners for an entertaining conversation.

Navigating Through Soup Talk

A significant portion of the early conversation revolves around their differing preferences and experiences with soup, illustrating their relatable day-to-day discussions.

Andrew Walsh [00:39]: "Because I will be ordering a bowl of soup as an appetizer, not a cup. Chuck, I know people say I'll fill up, but you have no idea how my body processes soup."

Luke counters with his take on clam chowder vs. lighter soups, adding humor to the topic.

Luke Burbank [05:37]: "It's definitely not like you got to be in the right mood for it. It's not like a chicken noodle or a vegetable. Something where you're like, nobody is 60% on clam chowder. You're either 100% or you're 0%."

Their discussion not only entertains but also resonates with listeners' own dining habits.

Andrew's Appearance on KUOW Podcast

Andrew delves into his recent experience on the KUOW podcast, sharing insights into the preparation process and the dynamics of guest participation.

Andrew Walsh [07:05]: "They reached out to me in advance and said, hey, we're trying something new. We want to kind of meet guests where they are."

He describes how proposing his own topics added a new dimension to the interview, reflecting his growth and adaptability.

Andrew Walsh [09:32]: "I sent five of these things in and I'd mentioned to you on the show that it was somewhat fulfilling, kind of playing that role again."

Weekend Plans: Whirlyball and Personal Updates

The hosts transition to sharing their personal weekend plans, offering listeners a glimpse into their lives outside the studio.

Andrew's Whirlyball Adventure

Andrew excitedly discusses his plans to participate in a whirlyball event celebrating friends' marriages.

Andrew Walsh [11:07]: "I'm going back to Whirlyball on Sunday. It has been a long, long time. A couple of friends are getting married, and we're celebrating with an afternoon of whirlyball."

He reminisces about past experiences, including playing with Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie, adding a touch of nostalgia.

Andrew Walsh [14:26]: "I remember the last time I did this with you? I believe it was when Ben Gibbard was there from Death Cab for Cutie."

Luke's Garden Project

Luke shares his ongoing garden project involving pea gravel and raised beds, blending his personal hobbies with relatable tasks.

Luke Burbank [19:13]: "I have this enormous pile of gravel that I have to sort of wheelbarrow down to this other location this weekend."

His practical challenges and humorous takes make the conversation engaging and down-to-earth.

Donations and Acknowledgements: Heartfelt Thanks

Luke takes a moment to express gratitude towards their donors, particularly highlighting Thea Anderson's support for the show.

Luke Burbank [21:07]: "Thank you Thea. One of my favorite little towns, Thea says. Happy to be in a position to be a dazzling donor."

He humorously promotes Thea's medical aesthetics clinic, blending sincerity with light humor.

Luke Burbank [22:25]: "In order to regain some semblance of myself, I... slowly learned how to treat my deficits."

Andrew joins in with playful skepticism about promo codes, enhancing the friendly rapport.

Andrew Walsh [22:38]: "But just use it though, like it can't hurt. You just type in TBTL in various fields."

Great TBTL Billboard Hunt: An Exciting Contest

John Sklott introduces an exciting new project—the Great TBTL Billboard Hunt—a contest encouraging listeners to locate a TBTL billboard across the United States.

John Sklott [25:50]: "This involves a TBTL billboard that is going to go up somewhere in America and the listeners can participate in trying to figure out where this sign is actually located."

How It Works

The contest unfolds over five weeks, with weekly clues becoming progressively more specific. Participants are encouraged to use their creativity and deductive skills to pinpoint the billboard's location.

John Sklott [26:25]: "The clues are going to get a little more specific but that doesn't mean they're necessarily going to be easy."

Prize and Submission

The first participant to accurately guess the billboard's location will receive a miniature replica of the TBTL billboard, serving as both a collectible and a trophy.

John Sklott [28:10]: "It's like a little desktop size, little mini replicate of the billboard that we will be putting up in the world."

Initial Clue

The first clue provided to listeners is simple yet broad, setting the stage for an engaging hunt.

John Sklott [31:10]: "It is in the United States."

The hosts encourage multiple submissions, emphasizing fairness and excitement.

Andrew Walsh [28:38]: "Sure, sure, sure, sure."

Sports Banter and Stories: Light-Hearted Football and Baseball Talk

The conversation shifts to various sports anecdotes and observations, blending humor with personal insights.

Miami Heat and Team Cultures

The hosts discuss the Miami Heat's enduring competitiveness and the unique culture of Miami that attracts high-profile players.

John Sklott [37:31]: "It's such a fun environment, like free agents and players love going to play in Miami..."

Luke adds his perspective on team environments and fan behaviors.

Luke Burbank [36:37]: "I just think of them as a new team. So there maybe wasn't a long standing culture in Miami of NBA, I don't know, norms..."

Unique Fan Stories

They share amusing stories about fans, including an interview with a lone die-hard Mariners fan enduring a rain delay.

Luke Burbank [42:36]: "There was one kid just sitting. I say kid. He was probably 25... super die hard Mariners fan."

Critique of Sports Announcers

The hosts express their opinions on sports announcers, highlighting a recent scandal involving homophobic remarks and the ensuing backlash.

Andrew Walsh [48:04]: "But his apology was one of those very annoying apologies where his thing was. He goes, that's just not me."

Listener Emails and Cameos: Engaging Audience Interaction

Andrew reads a listener's email about air traffic controllers in Prague, showcasing the show's engagement with its audience and diverse topics.

Andrew Walsh [53:54]: "Third, I learned that air traffic controllers, at least in the Czech Republic, are an extremely gregarious social group who speak an incredible level of English."

The hosts transition into a humorous discussion about Cameo services, envisioning "reverse cameos" where celebrities listen to personalized messages without responding.

Andrew Walsh [61:19]: "What if instead of a reverse cameo is we pay these... we get video of them sitting there listening and taking our message."

This segment blends creativity with comedic elements, entertaining listeners with their imaginative ideas.

Conclusion: Wrapping Up with Warm Farewells

As the episode draws to a close, Luke and Andrew express their gratitude to listeners, recap key points, and tease future content.

Luke Burbank [65:40]: "We do appreciate you spending all this time with us. We will be back here on Monday with much more imaginary radio for you."

They sign off with their usual friendly and humorous notes, leaving listeners eagerly anticipating the next episode.

Andrew Walsh [65:58]: "And good luck to all."

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This episode of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live seamlessly blends personal anecdotes, listener interactions, and engaging discussions, all delivered with Luke and Andrew's unique chemistry. From culinary debates to exciting contests and sports stories, #4473 offers a delightful mix that both regular listeners and newcomers will find entertaining and relatable.

Transcript

[Luke Burbank]

We only have to make small talk.

[Andrew Walsh]

For 8 minutes and 45 seconds.

[Luke Burbank]

We better keep it impersonal. Acceptable topics include what constitutes a grain, the Hubble Space Telescope, orchid varietals, the birth of the transistor.

[Andrew Walsh]

We only have to fill eight minutes.

[Luke Burbank]

Sure, but think about it as 480 seconds and you'll see why I'm concerned. Oh, my God. T, T B T M.

[Andrew Walsh]

Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is.

[Luke Burbank]

It's.

[Kara]

Gonna get down on Friday.

[Andrew Walsh]

Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. Jalapeno.

[Luke Burbank]

She's buying, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Because I will be ordering a bowl of soup as an appetizer, not a cup. Chuck, I know people say I'll fill up, but you have no idea how my body processes soup.

[Luke Burbank]

Too much.

[Andrew Walsh]

One man's too much information is another.

[Luke Burbank]

Man'S too little information.

[Andrew Walsh]

TLI and one other man's jei Just enough information.

[Luke Burbank]

Hi.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm sorry.

[Luke Burbank]

I didn't see you there. I was too busy blocking out the haters. 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.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's a kind of magic.

[Luke Burbank]

My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. I'm an activist and house party enthusiast coming to you from the Madrona Hill studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia, where it's a beautiful Friday. Oh, Ma pa. It's just beautiful. Much yard work to be done. This morning at about 6:30am A guy from the landscaping supply company showed up with three yards of pea gravel and dumped it in my driveway. And I will now be wheelbarrowing that down to the area that is going to go in the yard later on today. First, though, of course, we have to focus on real life. I have to focus on my actual job, which is hosting episode 4473 in a collector series of TBTL.

[John Sklott]

Let the fun begin.

[Luke Burbank]

And it's not just any episode of TBTL today. No, it is a day where we will be bringing you a big, cool announcement.

[Andrew Walsh]

Attention, Everybody, madams and Ms. Woz, about.

[Luke Burbank]

A TBTL project that will be going on for the next month or so. And you can be part of it, so stick around for that. Also, we're going to talk to this guy, longest running cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. There have been. There's been speculation online about his professionalism. He'd like to push back on that on this Friday.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm a professional. Look it up in the Book.

[Luke Burbank]

He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

You don't know how my body processes soup.

[Luke Burbank]

Is that. Is that our guy Higgins?

[Andrew Walsh]

Michael Higgins Clark? Is it Michael Higgins Clark? Did we just get there on the first shot? All three names.

[Luke Burbank]

I know he has three names. I know. Higgins is one of them.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, that's. Michael is one of them. And I think he hosts a game show on the Game Show Network that my grandmother used to love.

[Luke Burbank]

And he also says that we're the number one show on sinking riverboats. Is that also.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right. And it's all from the show. Is it Good News or Great news? Produced by Tina Fey? It's called Great news and it is John Michael Higgins. No, I said Michael Higgins.

[Luke Burbank]

We should end the week on a high note. We should probably just call it today.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I think I said Michael Higgins Clark. I think is what I had said.

[Luke Burbank]

I was willing to go with you on it.

[Andrew Walsh]

John Michael Higgins, I think. But I got Tina Fey's name right.

[Luke Burbank]

Were you thinking of. Is it Michael Clark Duncan, the actor from the Green Mile?

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I read the Green Mile. I think I watched the movie. I flex. Didn't care for either one of them. I remember, really. I remember as the first Stephen King. And I'm gonna say book, but really it's a series of, like, tiny little novellas, I guess. But I remember as the first one I read. Cause I read it when it was pretty, like, kind of contemporary. And I was like, I am out. I think I'm out. I read the.

[Luke Burbank]

The guy on Death row. Did he, like, not do it or something?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know. There's a mouse involved. No, I don't think.

[Luke Burbank]

Touch it as Tom Hanks, and somehow he's able to, like, warg into Tom Hanks, Right? Who's like the prison warden or something?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't even remember the warging. So I read it when it came out, which would have been in the 90s. And I don't have a very good memory. There's a mouse involved. I believe he befriends the mouse.

[Luke Burbank]

Are you thinking of the Great Mouse Hunt starring Nathan Lane?

[Andrew Walsh]

I am thinking of.

[Luke Burbank]

Are you confusing that with the Green Mile?

[Andrew Walsh]

I think of the mouse. Motorcycle. No, wait.

[Luke Burbank]

Are you thinking of Stuart Little?

[Andrew Walsh]

Thinking of Stuart Little. He's on Death row.

[Luke Burbank]

Stuart Little is on death Row for a crime he didn't commit.

[Andrew Walsh]

But he's definitely wishing on the same bright star that I'M wishing on.

[Luke Burbank]

You're thinking of Fievel Goes to the Gas Chamber.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's. Oh, my God, this cut all the way west.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. So anyway, good. Good for us on John Michael Higgins. Like you said, I believe we absolutely now that it is from that show. Great news. And I love it because, Luke, I am somebody. Not only is it funny, but it's true. And that's why it's funny, because that's.

[Luke Burbank]

Where the humor derives from.

[Andrew Walsh]

I love getting soup when I show up at a restaurant. When I roll into a restaurant, I'm already too hungry, so I always order the sou and then I always finish the soup. And I think I probably didn't need that soup because now I'm not very hungry anymore. And Genevieve always says, you don't really need the soup, do you? You don't. I mean, she doesn't care, but she's just like, you don't need the soup. You always say you eat the soup and then you're not hungry anymore. And then I always want to say, you don't know how my body processes soup.

[Luke Burbank]

But the truth is, it sounds like she does, though.

[Andrew Walsh]

She really is really keyed in and. Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

I tried to order some soup yesterday when I was making the hey Dummies video, and it was clam chowder. And I said, that's a pretty aggressive choice. You're either. There's no middle ground on clam chowder.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's the thing. I love the clam chowder, but it's very filling.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. It's definitely not like you got to be in the right mood for it. It's not like a chicken noodle or a vegetable. Something where you're like, nobody is. Nobody's 60% on a clam chowder. You're either 100% or you're 0%.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. And I had a. I had a steelhead shot. Today is. I mean, I think a lot of listeners probably know this and are sick of me talking about it, but today is the one week anniversary of. Of the last bowl of chowder that I had, which was a steelhead chowder, which was quite tasty, I will say, but again, very filling. And it's those kinds of soups that'll really get you in trouble. Luke.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

God.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a young podcast I saw. There's a comedian I really like named Stavros Halkin, and he's much younger than us, but he was on a podcast and he was talking about how he's probably like 35, but he was going on about how they were talking about male pattern baldness, I think. I don't know if it was colonoscopies or not, but he was like, basically he was lamenting how old they are. And I thought, you have no idea, buddy. Wait till you start talking about soup.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait till you start talking about soup. And how these. How these party apps are just. They're too much these days. Why can't you just write a letter like the old days?

[Luke Burbank]

How did that go, by the way? I. I probably hasn't aired yet. It's probably just released. But you are featured on the KUOW podcast this week.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah, we didn't talk about that.

[Luke Burbank]

They had declined. They had declined your offer of the party full story, which I thought was a good topic.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I got to tell this. It actually ended up going really well. And so I assume that that podcast has already, like, been released and is potentially in your. In your podcast app. If you want to Hear me and TBT favorite Dr. Kirk Honda, chat it up with KOW Patricia Murphy, just look for the KOW now podcast.

[Luke Burbank]

It was a listen to TBT. Although by listen, by definition, if they're hearing this, they're listening to their tv.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. So it really. I'm not just saying this because I'm sure Kirk is listening, but it really fun. It was like a really good show. I told you that I had gone in there a little bit, maybe even slightly. I don't know if nervous is the right word, but, like, I was really struggling with the topics that they had chosen. Not that I think they were necessarily bad topics, but I just didn't know that I had a lot to say on them. But maybe it was one of those things where because I wasn't super confident, my brain kept chewing on them in the 24 hours or whatever, however much time I had. So once I was sitting down, I even joked with them afterwards. I'm like, man, I came in here, I thought, I don't have anything on these topics. And the next thing you know, I'm blabbing and blabbing and talking over everybody else. And just like, I was like, well, I guess I do. Guess I had stuff. You just talked over me. No, I. But anyway, so it did go really well. But I will tell the audience the story that I had told you, which I do think is funny, and I think it's okay for me to tell here. In the past, when you're on this podcast, the host and producer, I think the producer will kind of send a. Send a list of topics with Various sort of talking points around it or sort of like kind of conversational cues, let's say around a topic, maybe this budget topic or maybe this, you know, new technology, law or whatever. And like, what do we all think about it? So they do a lot of prep and they send out these topics and say, you know, let us know what you think about these things. That way we can sort of like steer the conversation towards where we should steer it. You know, if you have a lot to say, it's helpful to know that. So this last time, though, they reached out to me in advance and Dr. Kirk and said, hey, we're trying something new. We want to kind of meet guests where they are. And maybe before we send out our list of topics, can you send us some ideas of things that are kind of like, we're kind of hitting you where you live or things that you want to talk about. And I'm like, oh, that's actually a really good idea. And I think I mentioned this on the show because I said it reminded me of my old days of being a producer. I kind of sent I think four, maybe five topics that I said. I know all of these are a little bit outside of what you guys usually do, but here's my pitch on each of these stories. One of them was that Partyful app, which isn't a local story, but I thought was seasonal. Whatever. I had very. I sent five of these things in and I'd mentioned to you on the show that it was somewhat fulfilling, kind of playing that role again. And I got a note back from the producer, whom I truly, truly love, by the way. This is not a slam on them, but the producer wrote back to say, this is really great. Can I use this to share with other future guests so that they can see the type of emails that we're looking for? Also, we're not going with any of these topics.

[Luke Burbank]

We'll be passing on.

[Andrew Walsh]

Just like, it was. Like, it was comedy gold in a certain way. Like, this is literally perfect. We're not using any of these topics. So anyway. But they found stuff that ended up being a lot of fun to talk about, so.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, Andrew, got any big weekend plans?

[Andrew Walsh]

I kind of do. The biggest one I've ever had.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel like I need to. I need a martini in my hand when I'm hearing this song. And I need to be sitting in one of those. The CD cover of. What was it called, like, Atomic Hipster. Remember that album that made the rounds? That was kind of like space age music for Atomic Bachelors.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, there was a whole series of them. There was like this lounge series, I believe by Raiko Disc, if I'm not wrong.

[Luke Burbank]

That would make sense.

[Andrew Walsh]

And the one I had was Space Capades. So it was very much this kind of lounge music. But I do believe it was a series because there was one that specifically mentioned atomic, but it definitely all had that atomic Space age bachelor pad.

[Luke Burbank]

Lounge music was the one that I had.

[Andrew Walsh]

Look up Space Capades. I had that one as well. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I'm right about that because I was obsessed with it. But I also ended up using it in my early radio career because I had so much good, like, kind of bed music or sort of mood setting. Yeah, here it is. Ultra Lounge. Was it Raiko Disc?

[Luke Burbank]

No, I know that somebody on Reddit wrote Conf. This is on Rjazz. This is like a Reddit jazz, I guess, subreddit or something. Confession. I like space age bachelor pad music. Anyone else?

[Andrew Walsh]

What? A confession.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

So here were the things in the series that I particularly had or specifically had. I had Space Capades, but you also had Bachelor Pad Royale. You had Mambo Fever. You had Crime Scene. You had Bossa Novel. Wild and Swinging. Oh, that's my weekend. Wild and Swinging.

[Luke Burbank]

That's what you're doing? Those are your big weekend plans?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, today I have to. After I get done with my work here, I got to kind of clean the house. Genevieve has some colleagues coming over, I guess, for drinks or something after work, which means I need to, like, kind of. I'm kind of. I need to get kind of through that because I need to. I don't know, it's just gonna add some pressure to my afternoon.

[Luke Burbank]

But do you have to be around for it?

[Andrew Walsh]

I think so.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

I believe.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, I see.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's kind of, I guess, part of the deal. But once I get through that, I have something that is sort of relevant to TBTL interest, I guess, which is I'm going back to Whirlyball on Sunday. It has been a long, long time. A couple of friends, and I do believe they use the Partyful app to invite. And we have a couple of friends who are around our age and who have been together as a couple for a long time now. We met them, I think before they were a couple, but now they've been together for probably close to 10 years or something. And they're getting married. But because, you know, maybe because they're getting married in their. In their 40s or whatever. Like they're kind of having a very, very small ceremony, but for a bigger celebration. They kind of invited everybody for an afternoon of whirly ball, which I like. I mean, that's up my alley. That is going to be very casual. It's going to be. I haven't played whirly ball in forever Now. I guess there are probably because it's so rare. There are probably some people listening who don't know what whirly ball is. It's. There's only like two of them in the United States. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

There's one in like the greater Chicagoland area and then one up in culturally Edmonds, slash Linwood area on Aurora Avenue.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yep. And that's.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it's. It's a very sort of specific, weird game. It's like bumper cars. But you also are on like what's sort of like a basketball court size thing. And you drive the bumper cars around and you are trying to throw a ball. Imagine a basketball backboard, but there's no. There's no rim, there's no hoop. It's just that square kind of shooting goal they call it. And you're trying to throw a ball through there with these kind of almost like high lie, little kind of, you know, sticks. Almost like a lacrosse stick kind of a thing. Yeah. And so you drive around in this bumper car and you throw the ball to each other. Then you try to throw it through this hole. I don't know who invented this and who thought this would take off, but it actually kind of worked. And it's a fun thing. Remember the last time I did this with you? I believe it was when Ben Gibbard was there from Death Cab for Cutie. And he was weirdly good at whirlyball, which was like, leave some for the rest of us, dude, you're already Ben Gibbard. Do you have to be good at whirlyball?

[Andrew Walsh]

It's my belief that a lot of his songs are actually about whirlyball. A lot of people think they're about like romance or tough breakups, but they're actually, I believe, about whirly ball.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was one of the most interesting text messages I ever got Because I remember I was at. I was at a place that was unlikely for me as well. I was watching, I believe, a huskies football game in the rain with a friend outside. Yeah. Which is weird because I swore it was a Friday. Maybe it was a Saturday or something. But it was before I certainly. This is when we first lived in Seattle. So Genevieve did not work for the university then. I didn't have any tie to the university other than friend of mine said, hey, I have some free tickets or something. Do you want to go sit in the bleachers for this game? I'm like, okay. I remember it was raining, and I'm hanging out with her, and then I get a call for or a text message from you that says, you want to play whirly ball with Ben Gibbard. And I think I said to my friend, would you. Would you mind if I excused myself? I think I'm playing whirly ball with Ben Gibbert. That was a lot of fun.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, so what are your big weekend plans?

[Andrew Walsh]

To play whirly ball with my friends and celebrate marriage on that Sunday. Yeah. Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, fine. It's been 15 seconds. How am I expected to remember that, Anthony?

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, goldfish. Anyway, that's the big thing. I'm looking. I don't have anything on the books for tomorrow, so that's kind of good. So I have, you know, something tonight that I kind of gotta get cleaned up for, and then I. Or not get cleaned up for, but I gotta clean up the house. I'm just in a place right now where I'm uncomfortable with the state of the house. It's not in some sort of terrible condition, but, you know, we have this sick cat upstairs, and so we have to have a separate litter box for her. And I'm very sensitive to litter box issues. And so that's kind of upstairs. And, like, because we usually have our litter box down here in the basement, it's got its own little. Kind of little room that the cats can go in. Kind of in this boiler room area where they're making a lot of phone calls to elderly people to see if they can, like, invest in various scam stock situations. I don't know how boiler rooms work.

[Luke Burbank]

I got in, by the way. I. I had an awkward conversation the other day with someone who had been part of. Not a boiler room, but hardcore solar sales, door to door.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, really? Hardcore solar sales?

[Luke Burbank]

Have you heard about this? Do you know about these, like, crews of generally young men who travel around the country and they, like, go out into these neighborhoods and they basically scare, you know, homeowners and people into. Not scare them, but they basically trick them into buying this expensive and not particularly great solar stuff?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I did not know about this. This.

[Luke Burbank]

It's kind of boiler room, but I was talking to this. We were filming at this thing in Colorado, and this. This workspace we were in. There was a guy who was Kind of working there. And he came out and was kind of watching us do the filming. And then when we, when we were done, he was sort of. We were chatting it up. He was a young guy, probably in his mid-20s, nice kid, but he was talking about solar. He goes, yeah, I do. Like, I work for the solar company. I do. I don't know what he does for them. Something. And he goes, yeah, I got into this because I used to be out. I used to be on a crew that was selling solar door to door. And this was one of those moments where I was like, don't bring this up. Like, first of all, everybody knows if you know about this stuff, you know that this is basically a scam and, like, not a good thing to be a part of. So I should have just nodded along and said, oh, interesting. But then I, instead I said, I just read this New York Times article about how crazy those solar crews are. And he goes, yeah, I really shouldn't have done that. Now I'm trying to make up for how bad I. He goes, yeah, we were, we were lying to people. It was really a bad thing. And now I'm trying to do my penance by working in the solar industry, but working for a good company.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Burbank]

So. But it got realer than I expected it to. And I was like, what did I think he was going to say when I was like, yeah, I just read up on what you were doing and it's a scam and it's bad for people.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I, you know, I think you made the right move. You were making conversation and, you know, it would have been interesting if he was, like, really defensive about it. That would have been an interesting story too. But it sounds like, yeah, he knew. He knew.

[Luke Burbank]

And I kind of accidentally called him out on it. I mean, he was a really nice guy, we had a nice chat, but I felt I was like, why do I have to. Why do I have to Ethan Hawke everything in that. And I've told the story a million times. The one time when I bumped into Ethan Hawke at KUOW Radio, I felt compelled to tell him about the only reference point I had with him, which was people making fun of him on stage at a, you know, a New York comedy night. And it's like, why, why is it so powerful for me to need to connect with someone over something, even if I know it's going to end badly?

[Andrew Walsh]

I think you are doing Ethan Hawke another disservice decades later by calling that Ethan Hawking, when really what you're doing Is Luke Burbank Burbanking? It makes it sound like Ethan Hawke is going around bringing up negative connotations with everybody he runs into, but really, it's you.

[Luke Burbank]

He's really suffering. Yeah, he is. He's being harmed twice in this story. First in the actual event, and then secondarily by now being the namesake for doing this dumb thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

What about you? Do you want to talking. Do you want to talk about your big weekend plans? Are they too private?

[Luke Burbank]

They're very private. It involves me and a wheelbarrow, Andrew. And that's all I can say about that. No, I just. I mentioned at the top of the show, I have this huge pile of pea gravel that was dropped off that I now have to wheelbarrow down to where I have. I'm putting in these raised garden beds. And so it's like, first of all, I'm really glad I double checked with the people, because what I figured out was the square footage of this area, which is itself a giant raised bed. And then I'm going to put gravel down, and I'm going to put smaller raised beds that are going to have, you know, soil in them. I'm going to grow some veggies. I measured it. It was like 288 square feet, roughly. And then I went on the Internet and I said, how many yards is that? Like, because when you buy something like gravel, you buy it by the yard. And it told me. The Internet told me that it was like 30 square yards or something. So I was going to go to this place and buy 30 yards of gravel. And thankfully, the woman there, I said, I have. It's about 288 square feet. She goes, yeah, that's three yards of gravel. Oh, I was going to get. I was going to have 10 times the amount of gravel I needed delivered here. So I'm glad I double checked. But anyway, I have this enormous pile of gravel that I have to sort of wheelbarrow down to this other location this weekend. So those are my big weekend plan. That and hoping the Mariners get their s together.

[Andrew Walsh]

Remember that time Ben Gibbert asked us if we wanted to get a bunch of pea gravel together? Remember that?

[Luke Burbank]

That was one of the weirdest text conversations I've ever been a part of. We was hoping for some razzle dazzle. Razzle dazzle. That's right, man. Razzle dazzle.

[Andrew Walsh]

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

[Luke Burbank]

Go, everybody.

[Andrew Walsh]

Razzle dazzle.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, let's thank some dazzling donors. These wonderful, generous folks are voluntarily donating a dazzling amount of dough. And that's how this thing is possible. That's how this can be our job. And TBTL employee Numero uno John Sklaroff's job is thanks to folks like Thea Anderson out there in the wolves. Sedro Woolley, Washington all right, thank you Thea. One of my favorite little towns, thea says. Happy to be in a position to be a dazzling donor. Once again, thanks for being a bit of brain candy sprinkled throughout my days. In order to make this tax deductible, I'm obligated to market myself. A decade ago I went through a paralyzing disease called Guyon Barre. This left me quite literally with permanent RBF resting bitch face. Well, Thea wrote it. I'm reading it. In order to regain some semblance of myself, I, a nurse practitioner by this point became trained in medical aesthetics and slowly learned how to treat my deficits. These skills have since led me to open a part time Clinic. Should any tens be interested in learning more, there is a standing 10% off. Contact info is at Monday Aesthetics.com located in Skagit County. Monday Aesthetics.com so if that's something that you think could be useful in your life, go ahead and hit Thea up. I'm at the website too. It's a very nice looking website and.

[Andrew Walsh]

You use the promo code tbtl.

[Luke Burbank]

I love that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know if that's true or not.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know if it's true either. I don't think it is.

[Andrew Walsh]

But just use it though, like it can't hurt. You just type in TBTL in various fields.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. That's what I do. Do you ever google is there a discount code for this and has that ever worked? I have never had that successfully give me a discount code.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's rare but I have done it. It's been a while but I feel like I've landed on some things. But the thing is I swear I found some that have worked but I have found them on websites that seem like they to give my computer a disease that it is going to carry the rest of its life that is treatable but not curable.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, exactly. Your computer will eventually be in a commercial where it's kickboxing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

And living life. Moss despite.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

Despite its situation.

[Andrew Walsh]

And there's always going to be in the commercial there's always going to be a little indication that it's not gone away. It's still there a little bit, but.

[Luke Burbank]

You can still kayak.

[Andrew Walsh]

But you can still kayak.

[Luke Burbank]

You can still enjoy life.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, Thea, thank you so much for supporting tbtl. And yeah, check out Monday aesthetics if you are looking to get some help in that department. So, Thea, thank you very much. Maestro, on your mark. On your mark. Get set.

[Andrew Walsh]

Get set now. Ready. Ready. Go. Everybody rattle daddle.

[Luke Burbank]

It's our friend Danielle Walsh, I assume long lost sibling of yours, Andrew.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, absolutely. Cousins once removed, I believe. But then not removed anymore.

[Luke Burbank]

No re. Reunited. And it feels so good. Danielle Walsh is in Seattle, Washington. Danielle says I've been struggling with how to use my dazzling time, so I'll make a shameless plug. Congratulations to Iris's choir. I'm guessing Iris is Daniel.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Congratulations to Iris's choir on being selected to sing the national anthem at the April 25 Mariners vs. Marlin's game. Okay, well, that happened.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I'm sorry that we missed that.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm assuming it went well.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

If you're planning on being there, come early and cheer on Seattle's Bryant elementary choir. I used to live around the corner from Bryant Elementary.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, man. Oh, geez.

[Luke Burbank]

I'll be in my no Mountain, Too Tall or maybe Wilco shirt and I would love to say hello. Well, Danielle, we got the word out a little late on. Yeah, sure it was. I'm sure a fun time was had by all. I'd also like to give a shout out to all of our public school educators, administrators and school allies. We're about to go to battle for our public schools, and I want to say that I see you and I support you. If our tens community would like to show support, they start by calling their congress, persons and senators and demand that we protect public education and keep diversity, equality and inclusion programs in our school. Thank you, business boys, for all you do. We wouldn't have this amazing community without you. Well, Danielle, we would not have this amazing community without you. So thank you so much for supporting the show and shout out to Iris and the choir. I'm sure things went incredibly well and everybody was dazzled. So thank you, Dan.

[Andrew Walsh]

Very cool. Hello, and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, our top story today is that we have a fun project that we're going to be doing this summer, and here to tell us about it is our dear friend and colleague, TBTL employee numero uno, John Sklott. John, welcome to the program.

[John Sklott]

Hey, guys. How's it going?

[Andrew Walsh]

Good, good.

[Luke Burbank]

So this is. I still haven't really locked in on a name for it, but this involves a TBTL billboard that is going to go up somewhere in America and the, the listeners can participate in trying to figure out where this sign is actually located. Can you give us some more details, John?

[John Sklott]

Yeah. Should I just fire away with clue number one? Because it is.

[Luke Burbank]

Why don't we set up, why don't we set up how the, how the contest is going to work?

[John Sklott]

Oh yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And what, you know, kind of what the timeline is, things like that.

[Andrew Walsh]

And let me start by saying let's call it the Great TBTL Billboard Hunt. How do we feel about that?

[Luke Burbank]

Great TBTL Billboard Hunt.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I wrote it down on this little post it note which I can mail to you guys if you would like. The Great TBTL Build Hunt.

[John Sklott]

Duplicate it and send it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, let me do this again then. TBTL the great is it the Great tbtl.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's how I feel. It feels Muppet esque that way. The great.

[Luke Burbank]

This is the Great TBTL Billboard Hunt. All right, John. Yeah, lay it on us. How's this gonna work?

[John Sklott]

So how it's gonna work is starting this week and then in total of 5 weeks I'll be coming on the show on Fridays, check in with you guys and give the next clue. Each week the clues are going to get a little more specific but that doesn't mean they're necessarily going to be easy. Right. Like we want people to have fun with this and like use their noodles. It's the tens community are great about that kind of stuff. Whenever you have a guest, email me John Jon tbtl.net I'll start getting the responses and then we will probably each week I think we're going to like review responses on air, see how close people are getting, maybe have some fun with that, then drop the next clue and then at the end of it we're going to reveal the winner. And are we saying announcing here what the prize is?

[Luke Burbank]

I think we can. I think we can. It is a. It's a replica of the billboard, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Correct.

[John Sklott]

So it's like a little desktop size, little mini replicate of the billboard that we will be putting up in the world. You can have at home for your collection.

[Luke Burbank]

If you are the person who guesses the accurate, accurately guesses the location of the TBTL billboard.

[John Sklott]

Now the first person.

[Andrew Walsh]

The first person that's really important. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And of course we also found out that miniature billboards are really expensive.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Than you think. So. And we'll be accepting these via email so that way we can be very fair about who is the first person. Yeah.

[John Sklott]

Time stamped. So as soon as you have an Idea. Email me what you think it might be.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Can people guess more than once?

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah.

[John Sklott]

Oh, that's. Did we. We're saying. Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, oh, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean, you're the one getting the emails. Yeah, yeah. That's why.

[John Sklott]

I mean, you guys are answering.

[Luke Burbank]

John was a little more hesitant.

[John Sklott]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

If I were collecting the emails. Hell no.

[Luke Burbank]

Now, the backstory on this, of course, if you missed the episode where we sort of got this idea, was that Andrew became obsessed with a particular billboard for a pizza joint in Seattle. Spiros.

[Andrew Walsh]

Spiros Pizza. In a relationship. Always.

[Luke Burbank]

Always. And we started thinking it would be really. It'd be kind of funny to do a TBTL billboard. And then we priced it out and it would. Turns out people are buying a lot of pizza from Spiros because those billboards are not cheap. So we found a different place in America that. That is not as expensive. Still not cheap, by the way, but not as expensive. And. And so we are going to put a billboard up there. There will be a billboard that exists somewhere in America for TBTL this summer. And. And, yeah, we want to see if people can guess where it's going to be.

[John Sklott]

Yeah. And I think we just did rule out, Luke. It's not the Spiros billboard that we can now definitively say it's not.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. So really, today is kind.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

It's not. It's not on. What is that Northgate Way or Where's the. It's not on.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe it's technically 105th at that point.

[Luke Burbank]

It's not 105th.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So we've ruled that out. Let's see. So should we bring out. Let me get.

[Andrew Walsh]

Before you start the drum roll, let me just say one more little caveat here. The guesses that we're looking for, we're looking for, like, kind of a specific location that is more narrowly defined than a state. So in other words, don't just say, hey, I think it's somewhere in Washington state or Utah or whatever. I didn't say those for any particular reason. That is not.

[Luke Burbank]

Not a clue.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let me just say.

[Luke Burbank]

Not all.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let me just say the rest of the states. Just. Yeah, alphabetically. Alaska, but I think I did those non alphabetically. Okay. But I just wanted to say. So we're not looking for the name of the state. We're looking for, you know, city, town, township, municipality, whatever, like. But we're looking for this.

[John Sklott]

A place with a zip code.

[Andrew Walsh]

It has to have a zip code There you Go.

[John Sklott]

How about that?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[John Sklott]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, so here we go. This is the first clue for the great TBTL billboard hunt. John, what's clue number one?

[John Sklott]

It is in the United States.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, it's in the. It's in the United States of America. Okay, that narrows it down.

[John Sklott]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, great. All right, let's see. Let's let those guesses roll in.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Start your engines, folks.

[Andrew Walsh]

So hold on one second. Is it in Dublin?

[John Sklott]

There are places. There are cities in the US Called Dublin.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't want.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't want Dublin, California, where I was mentioning. I was menaced by coyotes in Dublin, California when I lived in.

[John Sklott]

Upstate in central New York. There's of course Utica is a Greek city. There's Rome, there's. There's Mexico, there's Russia. So there's all. You mean if you say a place, Andrew, it's probably also a bad joke.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bad joke on my part.

[John Sklott]

Sorry, sorry.

[Luke Burbank]

So it's somewhere in. In the United States of America. What do you guys think the chances are? I'm nervous talking about this because we don't want to give away. The whole idea is we want to. We want to sort of drag this out a bit. I don't want to in talking about it accidentally give away information, but I wonder. I also wonder what the chances are of somebody driving by the billboard this summer by happenstance. By that I mean, I wonder. But again, to answer that question, kind of ends up giving more information about it because, you know, like that. That probably me asking that rules out it being Times Square, right?

[John Sklott]

Well, I know we were. Luke, you had text. You very kindly texted me your well wishes to up being a sad Knicks fan.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, sorry.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was.

[John Sklott]

And so I know the re. The reason I bring that up is we did this instead of the Spiros location to save money, but I actually went ahead and made an executive decision. I'm putting the billboard up across from Madison Square Garden to encourage the Knicks to play better. And I think that'll be cheaper than the Spiros one.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right.

[John Sklott]

So probably that's the location.

[Luke Burbank]

I wonder if we. I wonder if we could afford on our budget to have a one second ad in Times Square. You know what I mean? Like. Like in one second because there are. There's like five seconders and 10 seconds. It's so expensive there. The real estate is. So I guess we are rule. We're ruling out Times Square.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's not Times Square. So those are.

[John Sklott]

Yeah. All right.

[Andrew Walsh]

And it's not in Ireland. Okay. Those are the.

[Luke Burbank]

No it's not in Ireland.

[John Sklott]

It's not where the Spiro side is. We're giving it all away.

[Luke Burbank]

Can I may not be in Utah thanks to Andrew.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh God, Andrew, I have a. Or Washington or Alabama, Alaska. I had not a basketball question for you guys, but a basketball location question. In fact, this is sort of about geography. I guess. So maybe it's still in our wheelhouse. But Luke, do you remember the other day you and I were talking about the store staples and how it's like every staples we go into it seems like how does this place still exist? They have these big footprint buildings that then you go in and they're sort of cavernous. And then they don't have a bunch.

[Luke Burbank]

Of life size things of shack holding a cannon creature.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly. You can buy some $50 envelopes or nerds that are in some sort of fun shaped container at the checkout. Basically. And later on I was thinking about our conversation as I often do because you told me you need me to be a little bit more reflective about our conversation.

[Luke Burbank]

It's part of your personal improvement, Pat.

[Andrew Walsh]

I remember my thrive review quite well, but I was like, oh wait a second. How were we having that whole conversation and not even mentioning the Staples Center? Because that's where you guys are basketball boys and that's where basketball happens. But I realized later Staples center doesn't exist anymore either, does it? It's something else.

[Luke Burbank]

Crypto arena now. I know, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Could it be worse? Unless it was like vape town. Like could it be worth vape town or crypto?

[John Sklott]

Well, it could be the worst kind of crypto in Miami. It was, I think it was ftx and they literally had to pull the.

[Luke Burbank]

Game off like the next day after the news there was people on the roof. Roof that. By the way, peace and love to our listeners in Miami. I lived in Miami for a little while, but like that's deeply Miami to me. That of course they would have the worst crypto exchange.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

As their, you know, as the sponsor of. I mean the same again if you're in Miami, I hope you accept this with peace and love. But I mean this is the same place where they had to explain to their fans that you need to get to the game when the game has started. Because the Miami Heat games, even in the playoffs there was no one there until the like beginning of the second quarter. So they recorded a hype video to try to encourage people to attend the game on time.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's interesting. Does that have to do with just like Miami culture of people Just having a party mentality sort of. And like kind of showing up casually late because like the Heat. This is another basketball question for you guys from somebody who like just you.

[Luke Burbank]

Know, kind of should be banned from talking.

[Andrew Walsh]

I should, I literally should be. The listeners want me to be. But I always got the impression that ever since like sort of like, I don't know, I know it's been years and years and years and years, but. But when LeBron got there and they kind of built around him and they were in, you know, I believe they won the championship. Right. Anyway. But I thought, I sort of thought that even after that it was a blow to them, but they were never like, they never became like the Cleveland Browns or something. Right. Like the Heat has never been like a terrible basketball team since that time. Or am I wrong about that?

[John Sklott]

No, you're right about that. They've been mostly competitive. Sorry, Luke.

[Luke Burbank]

I know. I just think, I think it does have to do with just the kind of culture of Miami and you know, everybody's kind of on island time and, and, and, and the Heat. This is funny because how long do you think the Heat have been around, John? Probably 30 years. But they feel like a new team to me.

[John Sklott]

I, yeah, they came in the league I think when the, around, when the Wolves and the Magic came in. So like 8, late late 80s, early 90s.

[Luke Burbank]

I still think of them as a new team.

[John Sklott]

Yeah, I could be wrong.

[Andrew Walsh]

They were an original. I had no idea.

[John Sklott]

No, they were I think like 88 or something like that is probably in the time frame.

[Luke Burbank]

I could be wrong, but like Alonzo Morning, right. That was kind of their biggest, their, their early days was with Alonzo Morning. But I just remember they were, I think they were, you know, they were a relatively new team to the league. So there maybe wasn't a long standing culture in Miami of NBA, I don't know, norms and, and yeah, people I think are just in Miami just kind of chill and they have lots of, you know, fun things to do. So they're not going to go try to get inside the Crypto arena, the FTX arena.

[John Sklott]

And Andrew. Oh, sorry. As to Andrew, to your point of like them never really being terrible. That's true. They've always been like pre competitive or in the mix or like really competitive. And one of the reasons is the thing Luke just said, it's such a fun environment, like free agents and players love going to play in Miami and so that's one of the reasons they get a lot of big name players over the years.

[Luke Burbank]

Also, if I'm an NBA agent, I'm praying that my guy doesn't go to Miami. I'm praying he goes to Minnesota where it's cold, that he mostly has to stay indoors.

[Andrew Walsh]

If you're a parent of a basketball phenom, you don't want.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I'm just like, I know good comes from living in Miami with all that money.

[John Sklott]

I bet the safest one's Utah, right? No, with all respect to our friends.

[Luke Burbank]

Famously a place where the TBT billboard is unlikely to be. Speaking of crypto, I saw this. I was driving by, like, a gas station the other day in. In the town. The town that's down the hill from me, and they just had a sign like, they have a crypto ATM at this gas station. But it was, like, a very sketchy gas station because you know how, like, part of, like, the thing with crypto is they somehow got not involved in, like, ATMs. You can deposit to your crypto account through ATMs, but they're always the sketchiest ATM. Have you seen this?

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, no. This.

[John Sklott]

No. The whole point of a crypto is there is no physical cat. Like money. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't. I. What I know is that there are for some. I don't know how this works. Maybe you. You. You. You withdraw your crypto, but it's converted to dollars or something. Or you can put dollars into this and it becomes crypto. But, like, this is the last place on earth where I would do any of my cryptocurrencies work. Is this, like, chevron on Ocean beach highway in Longview, Washington.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's so sketchy. And also, what does your debit card look like? Like, what are you putting in that thing?

[Luke Burbank]

I know, right? Yeah, like a usb.

[John Sklott]

Of course.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, yeah. Or some sort of glowing, like, sphere or something that you hold up to. Hey, can I. This is. We don't like to talk too much about sports on this show, and this isn't about sports, but this is even better for an audio audience. It's about sports logos. Because I was having some thoughts yesterday, and I want your guys take on this.

[John Sklott]

This is a pass of mine, by the way.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is it? Okay, that's good to know.

[John Sklott]

I love this.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know. You know, I know so little about basketball as I just demonstrated. I think I know even less about hockey. The only thing I know is the hockey playoffs are going on right now. Everybody always hates Florida. I was at a bar last night watching the Mariners game, but the hockey game was on as well. Everybody seemed to be rooting for the parole line. A team.

[John Sklott]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And I was like, I didn't even know Carolina had a team. And I said, do you guys like Carolina or do you just hate Florida? Because I'd gotten the impression a lot of people hate the Florida Panthers. And literally I was asking the bartender, but literally, person to my left, person to my right, and bartender all said vociferously, all at once, we hate the Panthers. So apparently everybody hates Florida.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow.

[Andrew Walsh]

But let me just. The point that I'm getting to is the bartender said, well, my favorite team is the New Jersey Devils. And I had. And I didn't. I don't think I fully realized I had such a strong reaction to this logo. When he said the New Jersey Devils, I pictured the logo in my head and I shuddered. I dislike the New Jersey Devils logo. I think it's lascivious.

[John Sklott]

I don't know what that word means.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think it's overtly and disturbingly sexual.

[John Sklott]

Well, it's an N. It's an N and a J for New Jersey and has like a little devil tail thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's like a devil that sort of leans and horns, but I see it also as sort of a devil that's sort of like leaning back with one leg sort of bent up right. And the other one sort of dangling. It's lascivious.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel like you wouldn't. You wouldn't name them the New Jersey Devils in this day and age either. Right?

[John Sklott]

Well, you know the reason it's called the New Jersey Devils, right? There's the. There is an urban legend of the New Jersey Devil. It's like a. What they call, like, Bigfoot, like a cryptological.

[Luke Burbank]

Cryptozoology.

[John Sklott]

It's like one of those things where there's like a myth of it.

[Luke Burbank]

You can also do your cryptozoology deposit at that gas station.

[Andrew Walsh]

Devil into the thing.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Sklott]

Andrew, can I real quick give you a thing on the Panthers and the Hurricane Hurricanes?

[Andrew Walsh]

Two.

[John Sklott]

Two minutes. People don't like the Panthers because, one, they just won the title and their star player. Last, they're the defending champs, and their star player is this guy named Matthew Kachuk who's like maga guy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like.

[John Sklott]

Or certainly maga coded. He's just like a real arrogant kind of like, he's not like a nice dude. And then the pan. The. Excuse me. The Panthers is football. The Carolina Hurricanes were famously stolen. And Seattle fans can relate to this kind of behavior from the Hartford. They were the Hartford Whalers. Talk about logos. The Hartford Whalers have one of the Coolest logos of all time. Because it's like an H for Hartford, and, like, there's, like, a whale tail. It's all like. It's a whale tail, but the H is like. Yeah, like, negative space. It's a really cool logo. And a few years ago, the Carolina Hurricane started doing throwback nights with the Hartford Whalers.

[Luke Burbank]

We were just talking about this before the show.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's always risky.

[Luke Burbank]

If you steal a team from another city. You're not allowed to celebrate.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Any of the part of the team's history that's from that other city.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[John Sklott]

But such a cool logo, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Talk about Pucky the Whale.

[John Sklott]

Oh, yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Whale was their mascot. This is my kind of mascot I'm seeing here. Pucky the Whale, remembered as the fourth most missed NHL mascot. I can't get to 1 through 3. It's behind a paywall at Hartford Current. But I'm seeing a bunch of photos of the green whale named Pucky, and I love. I am immediately in love with this guy. This is everything the New Jersey Devil is not.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, absolutely. I'm looking at this, too. Yep.

[John Sklott]

Andrew, you should look up their logo.

[Andrew Walsh]

Too, because I'm looking at it.

[John Sklott]

No, it really is. And the green and blue, it's like a perfect design execution of all the elements of a team design.

[Luke Burbank]

Andrew, did you see this kid that had a star turn on the Mariners broadcast the other day when they were playing in Chicago and it was rain delayed?

[Andrew Walsh]

No.

[Luke Burbank]

I love this so much. So, you know, it's whatever they call Comiskey Field now. What? I don't know what. You know, what they call guaranteed rate. Guaranteed rate.

[Andrew Walsh]

How could you remember that, Luke? Come on, man.

[Luke Burbank]

It's Comiskey now. No, that was a terrible callback to yesterday's show. But anyway, there was a rain delay the other day when the Mariners were playing the White Sox, and it was just torrentially raining. And there was one kid just sitting. I say kid. He was probably 25. This one guy just sitting in his. In his, like, seat, just getting rained on. And there was no one. Like, there was no one seated at the stadium except this one guy. And so the announcers kind of became fascinated with him, and it turned out he was. He's a Mariners fan, so. Because when he. When it stopped raining, he took his raincoat off. He had a Mariners jersey on. So they. The Mariners. This was actually kind of great. The Mariners TV crew sent Brad Adam down to interview the kid during the game.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is smart. That is so smart.

[Luke Burbank]

It was really great. And he was super likable. He's from like Ohio or something. He's not from Seattle, but he just loves the Mariners because he's a stat geek. And he watched that John Boyce YouTube video about the Mariners and how the Mariners have all these like, weird distinctions as a team and basically as a data nerd. The John Boyce thing turned him onto the Mariners and now he's a super die hard Mariners fan. And it was so hilarious because they were like interviewing him and he knows. He knew everything about the Mariners, about the war, about, you know, like every kind of stat about the Mariners. I was like, this guy could be on the broadcast and he's soaking wet.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because he's just sitting.

[Luke Burbank]

He's drying out at this point. But he was like, but. But he had at one point just been getting rained on and. And then they interviewed him for like an entire inning and he was great. I was like, they should need to put this kid on the broadcast.

[John Sklott]

I like. You keep calling him a kid. He's about to go get his colonoscopy.

[Luke Burbank]

I know, I know.

[Andrew Walsh]

So did you guys see this? So this took place and I think I just saw this maybe from it bopping around the Internet. I can't remember where I first saw this, but this is from, I think a couple of weeks ago, maybe just last week actually. This was a game between the Tigers and the Red Sox. And this is in Detroit, right? And the camera catches a guy who's just way, way, way, way up high, just the only person, just a sea of empty seats around him and he's smoking a doob. John, have you seen this?

[John Sklott]

I.

[Andrew Walsh]

And the announcer sort of tell on him. Let's take a quick listen. This is about 40 seconds long because I remember just seeing a bunch of comments being like, the announcers did not have to like narc this guy out because they first catch him smoking this doobie. Then Bregman gets a home run and the camera catch. Yeah, I know. And then the camera catches him again. Fourth inning in Detroit. Check out this guy's seat and paraphernalia that feels elite. Alex Bregman clobbers the first pitch of the fourth inning to left field and gone. Bregman goes deep again. And the classic have the lead.

[Luke Burbank]

Classic Lance Bregman.

[Andrew Walsh]

Here's this guy again. The shot of this guy, he's leaning back and he's doing this thing where he's kind of like looking at the joint sort of like, I can't tell if he knows that the. The nation's Attention is on him. I mean, stay hot. Right? Right. Alex Bregman now reached in 24 of 26 over those 26. That's nine homers and 21 driven in. You know what I'm just realizing? He said, stay hot. I thought he was saying stay high to that guy, but he's talking about. They're showing him again, but they're talking about Bregman. So anyway, are those the.

[Luke Burbank]

What team? Are those the announcers for Andrew?

[Andrew Walsh]

So let me see. I am be.

[John Sklott]

It's gotta be Boston if they're saying stay hot to brag.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah, of course. Good call. Right? It's gotta be Boston, which is, of.

[John Sklott]

Course, the Boston announcers would be.

[Luke Burbank]

I know. Like, like, let him live. What are you doing narcing on him? Like, that looks illegal.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, right.

[Luke Burbank]

How fun can you be?

[Andrew Walsh]

Narc.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly.

[John Sklott]

I'm going to the Twins game tonight. Should I pack a few dudes?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, you should absolutely do what this guy did, though. He's way up. There's nobody he's bothering up there. There's. I mean, I'm telling you, there are probably, like, 400 empty seats around him, which is interesting because the. It must be a huge place, right? Because Detroit is, like, the hottest team in baseball right now. I'm happy for him.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, the Twins are pretty hot, too, right? Didn't you guys win, like, 13 in a row?

[John Sklott]

They're. I think they're pretty good. Yeah, we're going. Some friends gave us got tickets, and they're like, oh, come with us.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's great.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you hear about the baseball announcer scandal that's roiling Seattle this week, Andrew?

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yes, yes. That dumb guy on KJR making fun of one of the color comics.

[Luke Burbank]

Ryan Roland Smith's Australian accent.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly. It sounds so dumb, this whole thing. I don't understand why the Seattle Times cares this much, though. Like, I was getting news alerts on my phone that there's an. That this radio. This shock jock radio host who's new in town, went after Ryan Roland Smith's accent and everybody's outrage. Like, I care about baseball, and I didn't even really care about this story that much. It sort of seems like the guy who made the comments just wins again because he gets headlines when he apologizes yesterday, I'm like, just, why are we giving this guy so much space?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, the guy. As you said, Andrew, this guy's a relatively new local sports talk guy, and he was, like, reading an email where the emailer was complaining about one of our announcers. Is from Australia. I have to admit, it is a little bit. It does take some adjusting to listen to an Australian accent talk about baseball. It's just not normally kind of what you think of when you think of a baseball announcer type person. I've gotten used to it. I'm fine with it. But this local sports announcer or sports talk was like saying, yeah, yeah. You know, basically he was being critical of how Ryan Roland Smith says fastball or something.

[Andrew Walsh]

So, yeah, yeah. This texter wrote in and said he's like talking with a mouthful of marbles. And then this other KJR guy, the host, just sort of apparently really leans into it and starts, like, going on for quite some time about how he just thinks it's ridiculous that this guy has his job.

[Luke Burbank]

But the Seattle Times article was like, local sports talk host under fire for. And I was like, I don't really know. He was really that under fire. I mean, he said something and, you know, probably some people were kind of sticking up for Ryan Roland Smith. But then he had to do this apology. But his apology was one of those very annoying apologies where his thing was. He goes, that's just not me. Yes, yes, that's not me. It's like, well, it was you. You said it. Like, how is that the apology for saying I'm sorry? He did say, I'm sorry I said this stuff. That's just not me. It's like, well, it very much was you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, exactly. Why am I blanking on his name? But of course, the famous Red Sox announcer who had the Castellanos call when he's apologizing. Oh, I'm sorry, the Reds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did I say, by the way? Oh, I said red Sox. Yeah, we can rag on the Red Sox. No, but of course it was the Reds. But. But Brendan, what. What's Tom.

[John Sklott]

Tom Brennaman.

[Andrew Walsh]

Drive in a deep left field by Castellanos. It will be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4 nothing ball game.

[Luke Burbank]

I guess I don't have the entire thing. He basically got caught in a hot mic saying something homophobic.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And then he's like, that's not me. Anybody who knows me knows that. No, if you didn't think you were talking to a microphone and you're saying a bunch of hair hateful stuff, and then you realize the mic was on. Like, no, that's literally you. That is who you are. It's like, not when you turn on the microphone and you think that what you're saying is reaching a whole bunch of people. But who you truly are is what you say in private moments, you jerk.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Currently he is the announcer for CW sports college football games.

[John Sklott]

I thought you were going to say the secretary of communication for the White House or something.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, right.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, get it. We got to turn the nose up on this negativity train. I am very excited about the great TBTL billboard hunt, my friends.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, exactly. Are we gonna get pulled down in parts of Romania, Andrew, for that amount of those songs?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's interesting for a change. I wasn't even thinking about that. But no, I believe that you chopped them up. I feel like that is now. Now. In fact, I feel like we could publish that and make money off of it. I feel so strongly.

[Luke Burbank]

We've created a new piece of art.

[Andrew Walsh]

We've created a new piece of art. Exactly.

[John Sklott]

That's just sampling. So should I recap? Real, please. Okay, so if you have a guest, you can guess as many times as you want. Email johnbtl.netjonbtail.net you will get one clue a week from now through next several weeks. The first clue is it's somewhere in the United States. And we also gave you the bonus clues today. It's not in midtown Manhattan. It's not where the Spiro signs was. And it could be in Utah or it could be in Alabama. But we're not saying those are clues. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot.

[Andrew Walsh]

Any of the 50 states.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, that's true. So yeah, we'll have fun with that, folks. And yes, send in your guesses and we'll see how folks do. John, thank you very much.

[John Sklott]

Yeah, great to you guys. And we'll talk later.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, bro.

[John Sklott]

Bye.

[Andrew Walsh]

Here I go once again with the email. Every week I hope that it's from a female.

[Kara]

Oh, man.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's not from a female.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, Emails or v mails as we slide into the weekend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, you ever see an email, Luke, and it's a little bit too long to pre read, but you're just guessing that it's interesting based on some context.

[Luke Burbank]

Pattern recognition.

[Andrew Walsh]

Pattern recognition. That's what we got going on here. So if you'll allow me the space, I'm going to cold read an email that we got from Lindsay here on the topic of air traffic controllers. We were talking about this because you were traveling. You were flying out of Newark. Newark was having a lot of issues last week, last few weeks having to do with staffing, air traffic controls. And Lindsey says, when I was in my mid-20s, I was an English teacher in the Czech Republic, I worked for a language school that sent teachers into all kinds of businesses around Prague where employees might need to speak English on the job. Some of my clients were, like city based bank or Konica Minolta. Ooh. Anyway, imagine my surprise when one day my new schedule arrived and I was slated to go to the Prague airport. As it turns out, my students there were a bunch of new air traffic controller trainees. They were 10 men, two women, all in their mid-20s. And I learned a lot about air traffic control. First, there's an upper limit for how old you can be to begin training as an air traffic controller. This is because you're forced to retire after a certain number of years or by a certain age, which is maybe in your 40s because of the stress of the job and what it puts on you and your body. So you can't begin your career as an air traffic controller over the age of, say, 26ish. Another thing I learned is that you have to go through rigorous psychological evaluation to be even accepted into the program. You can imagine the kind of people would take to do a job under pressure like that, to be able to handle immense stress. Third, I learned that air traffic. How am I doing, by the way? I gotta say, as I'm reading this to you, Luke, I'm a little bit proud. I have not had that many stumbles on this yet, and I'm.

[Luke Burbank]

You're nailing this.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is just. Will you clip this from my reel? Because I'm gonna need this pretty soon.

[Luke Burbank]

Put this on your sizzle reel when.

[Andrew Walsh]

The great TBTL billboard hunt crashes and burns and I'm looking for new work. I need this on my reel. Third, I learned that air traffic controllers, at least in the Czech Republic, are an extremely gregarious social group who speak an incredib level of English. It had never occurred to me, but air traffic controllers spend their entire workday talking to pilots from every possible nation. So they need to communicate at a very high level of English, as that is the universal language of air traffic controllers and pilots. Yeah. So they shared with me that pilots of certain nationalities spoke English better than others did, and that made their job sort of challenging. They also shared with me some frightening details about pilots from certain nations and their enjoyment of the drink while flying. Yikes. You don't want to hear that name. Names. Where am I not flying? What airlines am I not flying on?

[Luke Burbank]

Lindsay, I would say Highball Air is one to avoid.

[Andrew Walsh]

What about Speedball Air? How are we Speedball Air?

[Luke Burbank]

Will get you there. They will get you there often ahead of schedule.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can we name the show Speedball Air will get you there. And why does it sound like a Jefferson Airplane song anyway? That's a great. That's a great little insight. And what an interesting job too. Lindsay. Lindsay's in Nashville, by the way. Way.

[Luke Burbank]

I heard somebody being interviewed on NPR who is a air traffic controller for Newark. It wasn't actually the person. What they did was they interviewed the person and then they transcribed what they said and then they had an NPR producer read the answers because that's how afraid of getting fired this person was.

[Andrew Walsh]

Interesting.

[Luke Burbank]

But one of the things this person said was that they would not recommend and they would not let anyone in their family fly in or out of Newark.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. That was according to a person who does air traffic control for Newark. They said that they absolutely would not. They would not recommend. They would not have a family member fly in or out of Newark. And they also would not fly in or out of Newark because they think it's that unsafe right now because of staffing issues.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do you think it would be interesting as we wrap up a broadcast week here on TBTL to take a swing at some listener submitted audio? I just feel, I have not listened to this yet, but I feel like if we're gonna play this at all, we should play it this week. This is from Kara in Austin and it is a surprise cameo that Kara got for her husband. And it's of George Went, I think rb. Yes, exactly. So let's see here. This is kind of long, so I don't know if we're going to play the whole thing, but I have not heard this yet. So this was a private cameo bought by Kara for her husband, I think before his bachelor party or something. This is George Went the late. Great.

[Kara]

Hello, Mark. George went here. And yeah, Kara mentions that you and she, you and her are gonna get married. Congratulations, kiddo. And apparently some of your best buddies are planning a weekend getaway that is bachelor party. Well, boy, I sort of wish I knew knew where the bachelor party was because I'm to give you some advice I can remember. You know, I'll go back to Cheers because one time Cliff and Norm had a big night and a little too big, they couldn't remember what the hell happened. And so Cliff goes nami. When that happens, you got to look through your pockets for your receipts. And we look and it's like, okay, bar this, this, bar that, bar this, strip club, that strip club. And then somebody, one of us Pulls out a receipt for a tattoo parlor. Everyone's like, oh, no. Oh, no, no. And we look around and there's nothing. And, well, it's time to go into the bathroom. And. Yeah, yeah. Apparently I had Ma Clavin tattooed on my ass and Cliff had Vera tattooed on his ass, so that didn't work out well. Anyway.

[Luke Burbank]

By the way, I think that might be his real wife in the background, who I learned was the voice of his wife on the show Cheers.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I didn't know we ever heard her voice.

[Luke Burbank]

We.

[Andrew Walsh]

We hear we.

[Luke Burbank]

You never. I don't think you ever saw her, but you would hear her voice maybe on the phone or something. And that was his real wife played the voice of his Cheers wife. I learned when I was reading some of his obit.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, interesting.

[Luke Burbank]

By the way, this has led me on a whole cameo thing now, because, you know, Cara included the link to cameo, and now I'm on cameo, and I'm looking at athletes that you can. If you want to pay $300, you could get a cameo from Brett Favreau. Ideally, he'll remain clothed during the video. I don't know. I mean, he has a history of problems with that. But also, one of the people on here, for $40, you can get former basketball referee Tim Donaghy to do a cameo for you. Now, what was Tim Donaghy's claim to fame? He was the NBA official who was cheating. He was trying to throw games because he had a gambling problem. Can you imagine wanting to get a cameo from that guy?

[Andrew Walsh]

Who is the person who wants to get a cameo from that guy?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know. Like, hey, I know, Andrew. I know you're a big fan of NBA referees who were fired because they were point shaving, point fixing. And guess what? Tim Donaghy is available. I can get you a cameo from Tim Donaghy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Who's the. Like, really dis. I don't know if disgrace. Disgrace is too strong of a word, but the ML. The notorious MLB umpire who finally.

[Luke Burbank]

Like Angel Hernandez.

[Andrew Walsh]

Angel Hernandez, Yeah. I'm going to get you one from Angel Hernandez. How does that sound? Sound?

[Luke Burbank]

I would love that. I would love nothing more, actually. You know what? I would get Angel Hernandez and then I would force him to read an apology. Here's my cameo message. I want you to apologize for letting your ego get in the way of so many calls that should have gone. Otherwise, it is amazing. I mean, we've been down this road before with cameo, but it is just amazing. Sort of who's on Here. And. And the. I guess you would say the people I don't want to be. I don't want to sound, I don't know, insulting, but, like, you could get. The Green Bay packers super fan will do a cameo for $25. Not a green Bay Packer. A guy who loves the packers will do. And who paints his face green. He'll do a cameo for you. If you want to get a cameo from a guy who also likes the football team you like.

[Andrew Walsh]

I just had an idea for a business, Luke, and I don't know how this works, but it's called Reverse Cammy. That might get a suit. But I was thinking about how you were like, oh, okay. If I get, you know, if I get a cameo from Angel Hernandez, I'm going to make him read something that I want to hear him say.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

What if instead of a reverse cameo is we pay these, let's say, celebrities or quasi celebrities, whatever. We pay them, but they don't read a message. They have to listen to our message. We get video of them sitting there listening and taking our message. They don't get to respond. So if you have some choice words. Words for Angel Hernandez, who else do you have choice words for? I don't know. Bezos. Although I don't see Bezos doing this. I feel like he's probably set up pretty bucks. Can you imagine? What if Jeff Bezos started doing cameos? It's like, well, you never, you know, penny saved, penny earned.

[Luke Burbank]

You know, Exactly. How do you think I got to be a billionaire, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Anyway, I like this a lot.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, yes, I. You will. You will. You will listen to me. I will be heard.

[Andrew Walsh]

And you get a video of them listening so you know that they're listening. You can see their countenance.

[Luke Burbank]

Maybe Dean Blandino, Fox NFL and NCAA analyst who's on here for $50.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is he the one who is often turned to. To, like, kind of talk about.

[Luke Burbank]

Explain, like, replay call and stuff? He's kind of there like, he's sort of the. He's the officiating announcer. What a world, by the way, that we. We now live in a world with NFL football where the. There. There is always one announcer who's just dedicated to talking about the officiating. And from the officiating standpoint, you get.

[Andrew Walsh]

A real, like, reverse Halo effect with that job as well. Because even if you're just like, hey, listen, I'm just an analyst. I don't have any buy into this game at all. But you have all of these sports fans who are on the edge of their seat either hoping this goes one way or another. And it's your job to say, yeah, they got the right call there. The refs did. Or, yeah, they kind of bungled that call. But like, so much of if you're. And again, especially football, because I think of the, you know, kind of relatively short season, like every tiny little call counts so much. Right. And so even if you're just like an impartial analyst saying, yeah, yeah, that's what the call is. That's what the rules are, you become associated with hearing bad news from these guys. I know that. Like when you said Blandino, I'm like, you. And then I'm like, oh, wait, no, he's fine. He's just been in the middle of, you know, analyzing things that I don't want analyzed.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. Although I also feel like those guys, whether it's Gene Steritor.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Or Dean Blandino, whoever their rules announcer is, they go way too easy on the refs, in my opinion, because they were themselves refs or they're. They've got to go like, you know, they're going to go play around a golf with, you know, with Ed Hockley after this. And so they like. I feel like they always soft pedal it when somebody gets the call very wrong. They'll sometimes say, I would have gone different with that. But they'll rarely go, that guy is ridiculous and should never be allowed to officiate again. Which is what I want to hear them say when an announcer messes it up.

[Andrew Walsh]

ACAB for referees.

[Luke Burbank]

Just like, yeah, they're all hockeys are.

[Andrew Walsh]

Anyway.

[Luke Burbank]

Anyway.

[Andrew Walsh]

All right, fun fact.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm gonna spend the rest of my afternoon. I'm gonna go between taking piles of rocks down to the lower part of my yard and scrolling cameo and figuring out who I'm gonna get you from. Cameo for your. For your birthday coming up.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm picturing you, like, putting a bunch of rocks in your whee barrel, but then not wanting to waste a trip. Also just packing your, like, pockets full of rocks as well. But then also, you know, that's kind of a concerning image to your dad. He's like, please don't fill your pants with rocks and walk out into the river.

[Luke Burbank]

Andrew, who is it? For $75, I could get you a cameo from Dave Sims.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's okay.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, what if we had him? What if we had him re.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hey, Lloyd.

[Luke Burbank]

Do the delivery to the ice cream to the truck for the team.

[Andrew Walsh]

Somebody was asking me about that the other day, and I was like, I don't know how to explain it, but it had something to do with the fact that Lloyd McClendon used to get the ballplayers ice cream if they did. Well, that can't be right. As I hear those words come on about that can't be right.

[Luke Burbank]

That was like. The bit was that he would buy them ice cream as a reward. And so this was, you know, Dave Sims's way of saying that, you know, the Mariners were going to win that game, but it got a little bit. Got a little. By the way, I could get you some Skip Bayless for $300.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I need a reverse cameo in that one. He needs to listen to me.

[Luke Burbank]

Definitely.

[Andrew Walsh]

Anyway.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, well, I have the rest of my weekend plans now figured out while scrolling this website, so enjoy your whirly ball.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, thanks, everybody. That is going to bring us to the end of our broadcast week. We do appreciate you spending all this time with us. We will be back here on Monday with much more imaginary radio for you. So. So we hope to join you, or hope you will join us then, is what I'm trying to say. All right, have a great weekend, everybody. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall.

[Andrew Walsh]

And good luck to all. Hey, Lloyd, do some delivery for the truck to the airport. Power out.