#4477 A Rolling Walsh Gathers No Coffee

Summary

Podcast Summary: TBTL Episode #4477 - "A Rolling Walsh Gathers No Coffee"

Release Date: May 29, 2025

In this lively episode of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live, hosts Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh delve into a variety of engaging topics, blending humor with personal anecdotes. From attending a heavy metal concert to navigating the quirks of hotel housekeeping, Luke and Andrew offer listeners a relatable and entertaining glimpse into their daily adventures.

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1. Luke's Day in Washington D.C. [01:11 – 03:41]

Luke begins the episode by sharing his experiences from Washington D.C., where he attended a heavy metal concert. He humorously juxtaposes the grandeur of the nation's monuments with the unexpected resemblance of the White House to "Jabba's Lair" and "Mas Eisley, Space Court."

Notable Quote:

Luke Burbank [01:22]: "I’m not very good with chitchat. I like a structured communication, like a hard out. You know, chit chat, chit chat."

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2. Heavy Metal Concert Experience [03:44 – 08:51]

The hosts recount Luke's attendance at a Metallica and Pantera concert in Lansdowne, Maryland, alongside Andrew and their friend Neil. Despite initial concerns about the weather and ticket arrangements, the evening turned out to be enjoyable, sparking a discussion about the exclusive Diamond Club and its amenities.

Notable Quote:

Andrew Walsh [08:37]: "What I didn’t add was that my friends are you two and that I’ve been listening to this podcast every day since 2012."

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3. Navigating the Diamond Club and Bar Culture [08:51 – 14:43]

Andrew and Luke delve into their experiences within the Diamond Club, critiquing the quality and accessibility of its offerings. They draw parallels between free food in social settings and primal instincts, exploring the psychological and community aspects of complimentary refreshments.

Notable Quote:

Luke Burbank [12:35]: "It’s something about free food that sort of, like, something switches in people's brains."

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4. Language Skills and Community at The Vibe Bar [14:43 – 22:27]

The conversation shifts to the Vibe Bar, where Andrew appreciates the diverse community and the bilingual talents of the bartenders. Luke expresses admiration for Andrew's fluent Spanish, highlighting the benefits of multilingualism in fostering connections.

Notable Quote:

Andrew Walsh [19:38]: "If you'd like to understand the difference in the temperament and the wiring of me and our friend Neil, it is the fact that you've never heard Neil speak Spanish."

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5. A Heartwarming Compliment from Hotel Housekeeping [43:21 – 51:00]

Luke shares a touching moment when a housekeeping staff member complimented him on the cleanliness of his hotel room. This unexpected praise boosted his morale and led to a discussion on hotel housekeeping practices and personal tidiness.

Notable Quote:

Luke Burbank [46:42]: "This woman was a compliment to the cleanliness of the hotel room that I had did not stage for her. It made me feel like I am a person who is living a life of purpose or something."

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6. Donor Appreciation and Special Messages [25:29 – 78:37]

The hosts take a moment to thank their donors, particularly Corey from Brookline, Massachusetts, who has been a long-time supporter of the show. They share personalized messages, blending humor with heartfelt gratitude.

Notable Quote:

Luke Burbank [26:44]: "These guys are just so special."

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7. Metallica Concert Highlights [54:20 – 68:45]

Andrew and Luke provide an in-depth recount of the Metallica concert, praising the band's performance despite poor weather conditions. They discuss specific elements like the opening songs and their observations of band members' dedication and musicianship.

Notable Quote:

Andrew Walsh [66:08]: "The fact that their musicianship is really pretty incredible. They know exactly what they are doing."

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8. Reflections on Clint Eastwood Films [68:26 – 73:24]

The conversation veers into film critiques, with the hosts discussing Clint Eastwood's "The Mule" and "Gran Torino." They reflect on the portrayal of aging and the political stance of the actor, intertwining personal opinions with cultural commentary.

Notable Quote:

Luke Burbank [75:02]: "He's 90 and he is driving... his superpower is that he can drive unsupervised."

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9. Blurs Day Segment and Sibling Messages [73:24 – 81:23]

In a humorous twist, Luke and Andrew engage in a playful exchange about overlapping birthday messages sent by Luke and his sister Hannah. This segment underscores their camaraderie and the light-hearted nature of the show.

Notable Quote:

Andrew Walsh [78:37]: "We have torn a family asunder."

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10. Closing Remarks and Flight Delays [81:08 – 82:22]

As the episode wraps up, Luke mentions a delayed flight, humorously referencing airline frustrations. Andrew extends well-wishes to their listeners, reminding them to stay positive.

Notable Quote:

Luke Burbank [82:22]: "Have a great Thursday, everybody. And please remember, no mountain too tall."

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Conclusion: Episode #4477 of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live offers a blend of personal stories, humor, and insightful discussions. Luke and Andrew's chemistry shines through as they navigate topics ranging from heavy metal concerts to the nuances of hotel housekeeping. Their authentic interactions and witty banter provide both entertainment and relatability, making this episode a must-listen for fans and newcomers alike.

Transcript

[Luke Burbank]

You can't teach an old dog.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because they're too old.

[Luke Burbank]

And they can't listen to you because they could be deaf.

[Andrew Walsh]

When the going gets tough, you get tougher. Don't judge a book. Yeah. Because it's a book.

[Luke Burbank]

Don't put all of your eggs.

[Andrew Walsh]

Ow. Yeah, because if sometimes if you put.

[Luke Burbank]

All your eggs, you'll run out of them.

[Andrew Walsh]

Out of sight, out of. Out of knowing.

[Luke Burbank]

Two wrongs don't make it better.

[Andrew Walsh]

A picture is worth less than a person you love.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I know that.

[Andrew Walsh]

The best things in life are family and pets.

[Luke Burbank]

Don't cry over anything.

[Andrew Walsh]

Tbtm.

[Luke Burbank]

I consider myself to be an absolutely dead center, normal, average American. Here's a 1 0. Swung on. There it goes. Deep left center. That ball is high. That is four far.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is gone, but caught.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm not very good with chitchat. I like a structured communication, like a hard out. You know, chit chat, chit chat.

[Andrew Walsh]

Chit chat. Where are we going?

[Luke Burbank]

Right BE B. I don't even know what that means.

[Andrew Walsh]

No one knows what it means, but it's provocative.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my God.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a whole new level of nerd. Well, all right. Hello, good morning and welcome, everyone, to a Thursday edition of tbtl, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

[Andrew Walsh]

Cup of coffee in the big time.

[Luke Burbank]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Who is he?

[Luke Burbank]

Coming to you for the final day from our Nation's capital, Washington, D.C. w.

[Andrew Walsh]

A S H I N G T.

[Luke Burbank]

O N Baby DC it was okay yesterday here in the. I guess we call it the dmv. Right, the dmv. The District, Maryland, Virginia area. I was out in Maryland, and it was. Not only was it raining sideways, but it was really cold. It was freezing cold. In fact, it felt, which is very strange at the end of May in this part of the world. It's usually warmer and muggier. And today it stopped raining and it was, you know, still kind of gray and cloudy. But it was an okay day for getting out and doing a little jog around the nation's capital. Weird time. Weird time to be admiring the. The history and the grandeur of this country and the monuments in Washington, D.C. one moment you're driving through Lafayette park and you're listening to Clap your Hands, say yeah. And you're feeling inspired by the. The dream of this country and what it is, what it could be, maybe. And then you look up and you see the White House and you're just like, oh, yikes. Jabba's Lair. Mas Eisley, Space Court. Not great. Anyway, I'm working my way through that, putting that out of my mind, and focusing here on the task at hand, which is episode 4477 in a collector series.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let the fun begin.

[Luke Burbank]

Last night in Lansdowne, Maryland, I attended a genuine heavy metal rock and roll show. Oh, hey, King of Rock. You're out of your depth. Not only did I see Metallica and Pantera, I also saw Suicidal Tendencies. I hate to say it. It was kind of cool to say it. Did not go the way I was expecting it to go. We can talk about that today. Also, it's a Thursday, AKA blursday, so, you know, it's my birthday today. Do the blursday messages and we are gonna talk to this guy. Longest running cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ship. Something you may not know about him, though, this handsome young stranger. He is a handsome young stranger slash soulful rocker from New Hampshire. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good morning, Luke. You did me dirty. You did me real dirty in your intro. And I don't even think you realize it. I don't even think you realize it.

[Luke Burbank]

I did. I was. It was very intentional.

[Andrew Walsh]

You used a drop.

[Luke Burbank]

Whatever it was, it was with malice and forethought.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's what I thought. Used a drop that I found to be particularly triggering this morning. Cup of coffee in the big time.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, no. Are you.

[Andrew Walsh]

I am with.

[Luke Burbank]

Are you getting another colonoscopy? So you're not allowed to just.

[Andrew Walsh]

Cup of coffee in the. Don't come down. I need a cup of coffee so, so bad. I don't have any coffee. I was out way too late last night. Did not make the. Did not prepare in advance the coffee at night the way I usually do. And then I rolled out of bed and rolled right into the shower. And then I rolled. Well, let's just picture I rolled out of bed, I rolled downstairs, I rolled into the shower, then I rolled into here. And I never rolled past the coffee maker to make some coffee. And so I am struggling, and I need. I want to drink that drop. That's how much I need coffee right now.

[Luke Burbank]

A rolling Walsh gathers no coffee.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is exactly right.

[Luke Burbank]

All right. I have a million questions about this, and you're, you know, you're under no obligation to answer ones that are maybe too personal. First things, if you are having one of those mornings where you're not up at the crack of dawn. Genevieve does not make coffee in the home environment.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sometimes she does. I don't know why not today, but it's usually just sort of in my purview. I enjoy doing it. And so it might have just been of miscommunication, and I didn't have time to really discuss it because, like I said, I rolled out of bed, rolled downstairs, rolled across the basement floor into the bathroom. That was tricky because it's a narrow door. And then rolled into the tub. Anyway, it just. I never talked about it.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, second question. Because I had a sense, you know, you, I know, were on a operation a Rosa Reina bobblehead. Yesterday. You were going to the Mariners game with our buddy Neil to get your hands on that sweet, sweet bobblehead. And to see the Mariners suffer their worst loss of the season in terms of runs, I believe surrendered.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wasn't our fault. Was not our fault. Not my fault, Not Neil's fault. Might have been George Kirby's fault.

[Luke Burbank]

But. But then, you know, again, I know that being out at the game can be a part of a fun night of adventuring. Did you then end up at, like, Teddy's afterwards? What was. What. What was the sort of contour? What was the shape of the night for you?

[Andrew Walsh]

It ended up going to that bar near my house, the Vibe, because it turns out, needed to take the E line. I think Neil had a couple of options. An E line, a D line. We don't have to get in the details of his bus life, but he's like, oh, we can just take the E line together. I'm like, oh, that's good. And then I'm like, honestly though, if we just got off one stop before my house, it literally, I mean, it literally drops you off at the steps that lead up, like those three little steps behind the bus stop that lead right to where the year old haunt, the Mandarin gate was. Like, the bus stop should be called the Vibe stop. Although I understand why you wouldn't maybe call it that. So anyway, I was like, we could just get off at 100th and just go get ourselves maybe a drink or two. And, and that's what we did. And it was nice. We talked. We probably sat there for four hours. I don't know if we. We didn't close the place, but we were there for quite some time. It was a great night. I mean, the, the, the, the score of the game was terrible. The game itself, though, we had these just great tickets. Luke right behind the plate. Like we. Whoa, we were two seats behind the Diamond Club, as they call it.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I was going to ask, were you in the Diamond Club? Because that is really farting through silk. Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

No. And that's a whole thing. You go special underground tunnel, and then they have like. I don't know if you and I have talked about this. I don't know if I'm in the right place to talk about it right now, but I guess I got to talk about something. This is my job. They have this thing, I think most ballparks.

[Luke Burbank]

Do your job.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do your goddamn job for once in your life, Walsh. I. I think you know a lot. I would assume almost every ballpark has some, with the possible exception of the A's, has some version of the Diamond Club where you kind of go in and there's like a. All the hot dogs are free and all the ice cream you can eat. And it's like 700 a ticket or 600 bucks a ticket or whatever. I think there are people.

[Luke Burbank]

There are servers that come out.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Once you're seated, there's like. Yeah, like you said, there's a whole buffet kind of style, pre. Pre meal thing. And then once you're seated, it's like you're, you know, you've got a personal attendant bringing you any kind of drink you could imagine.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And there's a big bar inside, so you can get kind. You can, like, in like a traditional style bar, you can have drinks ahead of time. And again, everything is. Is. Well, I wouldn't say free. It comes with the price of the ticket. Also, when you say the tickets are like 600 bucks, I don't think anybody actually buys them. I think maybe people do, but I think they're all probably attached to some sort of a business, you know, corporation account of some sort. And I know that the only reason I got in there was because a buddy had tickets through the radio station a while back. But all of that is to say I did want to talk to you. You mentioned the buffet. Everybody mentions the buffet, right? It was like, oh, you're going to the Diamond Club. Don't fill up in advance because you go in and before the game there's a buffet. And I don't want to sou. I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

Ungrateful.

[Andrew Walsh]

Ungrateful. Or even partially, like, classist about this or whatever. But it's like everyone makes such a big deal about this buffet. And it's like you go in and like, yeah, I guess it's kind of a nicest, Nice. Ish. Buffet. If you were on maybe like a cruise ship or.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, a mid tier wedding or something. Like, it's kind of like, no offense to mid tier weddings, but it's kind of like.

[Luke Burbank]

Listen, as a person who's been married multiple times, I do take offense.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I don't, I don't. Well, I mean, that's kind of, that's a good example right there. Like, I don't think, think that this is the kind of spread somebody like you with, you know, kind of an eye toward the aesthetic would like have at your wedding. Right. It's like very.

[Luke Burbank]

Can I answer that question very briefly?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Did you have a carving station? I don't think.

[Luke Burbank]

You know, I think food is one of the worst investments you can make at a wedding as the people getting married. I. My argument is people rarely remember the food from a wedding. I would say, make sure there's plenty of alcohol and a really good deejay and you schedule it in such a way that people kind of know they should probably eat something because the food is an absolute budget killer. And unless you are, you know, spending a million dollars on the wedding, the food will just range from passable to average at most weddings. And I just, I just, that's, you know, as somebody who gets married about every six years, which I guess means I'm overdue. That's. That's what I would say about that. But. But back to your point about the buffet, I couldn't agree more. The one time that I got to go there, I had the same thought, which was, this is all under a heat lamp. It's all, it's a lot of chicken strips and french fries and hot dogs and you know, these are certainly things that are tasty to eat, are there?

[Andrew Walsh]

See, I don't remember that. I. I feel like I would have been more into that this. I remember it as being the kind of stuff that people were excited about is like, ooh, like I remember bacon wrapped dates and like a carving station under a red heat lamp. And like, not even like, that's what I mean. It's not like a. All you can eat, but it's ballpark food. Hey, grab a. There's some of that is available as well. But I'm talking about the buffet part is like, it's like to use the word elevated. I'd have to use it somewhat ironically there. But it's not ballpark food. It's again, kind of like, hey, we're going to dinner on the cruise ship. And it's kinda like, who want. Well, I guess some people do, and I don't need to take that away from them. But everybody was talking about it. I just remember sitting there being like, I don't want any of this. I want to go eat the free hot dogs during the game. You know, that's more my. And I do think that it taps into something that you and I are very much on the same page with. And again, trying to have this conversation without sounding judgy, but the sort of the mentality or the psychology around free food at, like, an office place or something, like, hey, did you hear Debbie brought in donuts? And everybody, like, kind of gathers around and it's like, oh, my God, thank God there are donuts. I could never afford these myself. God forbid I could have gone myself and gotten donuts and picked out ones I liked, which sounds like I'm such an asshole here. But there's something about free food that sort of, like, something switches in people's brains. It's like, I don't think you would be eating this except for the fact that somebody said, it's free food.

[Luke Burbank]

And it seems to. There's probably something kind of primal about it, right? Which is we are. You know, we need to eat to stay alive. And there's something about. For. For a certain kind of person, I would say the. The majority of people, but for some reason, not you and me, it's like this. There's something that's very. Yeah. When you hear there is food and it is free, it's something you like, your brain jumps back. I don't know, 500,000 years in its evolutionary journey. And just because, like, you're on the Serengeti and someone just left a. Somebody left an antelope that had been freshly slaughtered out. And you. Your inclination towards this antelope is part of why you will then have many, many generations of offspring who will survive long enough to work at Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle and now be in a conference room where someone has brought in Dick's cheeseburgers.

[Andrew Walsh]

And though I would say this, too, as far as the sort of primal instinct, there a nicer aspect of this as well, other than just survival, and it is the sort of community aspect. You were using the example of primates or, I think, cave people. I don't know what you said there, but I also picture a Far side cartoon where you have a whole bunch of predators. There are a lot of Far side cartoons where you see, like, maybe four or five.

[Luke Burbank]

That's really how you make meaning of your world. Let's Be honest.

[Andrew Walsh]

The far side. Yeah, exactly. Listen, I've said this a million times. The world fits into far four far side categories.

[Luke Burbank]

Yep.

[Andrew Walsh]

Quadrants. No, but you know the classic, like you see like maybe three or four lions all eating some sort of carcass, but it's not super grotesque. But then one of them says something awry to the other one. Can you sort of picture the style cartoon?

[Luke Burbank]

Absolutely.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's what I'm picturing too with like, hey, there's Dick's cheeseburgers. And they dump them on the table. And again, this is very specific to your and my experience at Cairo a couple of times. And then people do. They come around and then it's like about the food. But also it's kind of like, hey, it's a communal thing. That's how people catch up a little bit. Like there are, I believe, societal benefits to this, social benefits to this too, that I'm just not personally interested in. But there's something good to be said there and something equally primal but maybe also more interesting there. I'm just sort of not particularly interested in it or an interesting person maybe.

[Luke Burbank]

But speaking of social benefits, this is what I really want to talk about with you. It sounds like you are slowly but surely coming around on the bar that used to be the Mandarin Gate that is now known as the Vibe because you actually went there voluntarily. Or is it the case that to take it back to the Serengeti it just happens to be the closest watering hole so it is the one that you will drink at.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, it is both. It can be.

[Luke Burbank]

It is both.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is both. I want to marry that guy. I don't. I've seen that commercial 100 times and every time it makes me like had a belly laugh. Like, I don't know why. It's just so funny. A guy just screaming at the top of his lungs by himself and somehow it's like mic'd really? Well, that's what's really funny about it, the way it's miked. No, it is both. The bar does have. It's developed its own little community, which I do like. I'm not saying I'm part of that community, but there are little pockets. I've already mentioned to you, some people who were old Mandarin Gate regulars are there. But then also it's just sort of. It's become like. I noticed a lot of Spanish speaking people go there and like, I think almost all of the bartenders speak Spanish because of the clientele, which I think is kind of a cool thing. And it just sort of seems like a lot. Oh, and like, there's this guy. I don't know if you would know him. I don't know if he's an old school regular in any kind of capacity in the north Seattle bar karaoke scene. But when I first started going there, when they were brand new, they had really, like, cheap food. They're buying it from, like, I don't know, the stuff that Cisco rejected, sort of something. They were serving chicken wings that were just, like, so weird. They're mostly bone and not prepared very well. And then over time, you know, that sort of has shifted. And it's not. Obviously, it's a. It's kind of a divey kind of sports bar. It's not like gourmet food. But they just dialed into what they can do and what the situation there is now is they have this older guy who speaks primarily Spanish, but he also speaks English. And you. You order just some pub food or something. And then he's. He kind of. He walks out very slowly and kind of brings it to you. And he kind of puts his hand on your shoulder and he, like, huge smile on his face. And he always, like, kind of asks you something personal or, like, kind of jokes about the food or something. And then. And I noticed that, like, he will. Everybody's like, are you singing karaoke tonight? And like, I happened to be in there the other night. I think it was a.

[Luke Burbank]

So they still have karaoke there.

[Andrew Walsh]

They now have brought back karaoke, but the layout is so different. You wouldn't even recognize it as your old. It's not even like a holdover, but it's just a bar that does karaoke now. And it's kind of in this. Kind of across the way from the bar where I'm usually sitting. But it's, like, so great. Like, I was there, like, last week at some point, I was just there by myself reading my book, and people were singing terrible, terrible karaoke songs. But then there was this beautiful ballad, and I looked at the bartender. I'm like, is this the chef again? He's like, yeah, Everybody wants to know when he's singing. People come in.

[Luke Burbank]

Amazing.

[Andrew Walsh]

He's like such a character. And so, like, there are these moments.

[Luke Burbank]

Life finds a way.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. So I. I do appreciate that bar. It's also like, if Ted. If it was right next door to Teddy's. You know what I mean? If. Okay, so imagine a Far side cartoon. And there's. Now we're in the bottom right quadrant, and I'm looking at two bars next to each other and one says Teddy's and one says the Vibe and I have to choose which one. I'm going into the. The Teddies every single time. Of course. And you're going to disappear for a moment here. Luke, I just noticed you have on. I'm turning this off, which means you're going to disappear for a second. Oh, I can't change that during the show. We might at break time have to turn echo cancellation off on you. I just heard you now.

[Luke Burbank]

Can I end? No, can't change during the recording.

[Andrew Walsh]

But anyway, yeah, so I do like both places in their own right. But Teddy's is my place. The Vibe is convenient. And also like I said, literally they have a. There's now the city has declared that bus stop at 100th at Aurora and 100th, which was a conversation I was having with my buddy last night. I can say, oh, I live on, I don't know, 135th, 130th, 117th. Like, oh, that all sounds normal to me. It's hard to say a hundredth and just leave it there. I live on a hundredth.

[Luke Burbank]

It's also tough because it's not a cross street. It runs into the back of SARS.

[Andrew Walsh]

And then over by the.

[Luke Burbank]

What used to be some kind of a sex shop. So you don't. When you mentally map Aurora, you're thinking of it in terms of 80th, 85th.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yep.

[Luke Burbank]

90S, you know, 90th maybe, and then 95th. And like anything where there's a stoplight and you can cross, that's. Those are the streets that get all the publicity. Those are the hotshot streets. Hundredth is just kind of, it's just kind of low keying back there, you know?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Kind of the backwood. Yeah, exactly. Or at least at that stop. But anyway, so that, that's why we went there and yeah, we, we had a good time. We just. But I mean it was, it was not a wild night. I, we didn't, you know, we're not karaoke years or anything like that. But it was kind of a late night.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. I also love the fact that our friend at Neil speaks fluent Spanish and so if he ever needed to relate to some of the Spanish speaking folks there also, you know, I, I feel like I just think speaking two languages is a magic trick.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So I'm so envious. I also get so, so deeply annoyed at Americans who don't speak another language outside of English, who have any criticism for people who are Speaking English as their second language. It's just like, like, how's your Spanish? Or how's your fill in the blank? But, but part of that too is, is just like, it's when, when I've heard Neil break into his absolutely flawless Spanish with anybody who. That's their, that's their first language. It's just like I swoon. I swoon.

[Andrew Walsh]

I always feel ashamed too. I always feel shame that I didn't.

[Luke Burbank]

And that's what I'm hoping you're feeling.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

When Neil Star speaks big.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know that I've ever heard Neil speak Spanish. But I generally speaking, I'm just like, yeah, to navigate this world, we should, for somebody in my situation, where I live, especially when I lived in LA too, like, you should just know how to speak English and Spanish and I just never did. And every year that passes, I'm like, someday I'll do that. And now I'm 48. Going on 48.

[Luke Burbank]

But you know, also, if you, if you'd like to understand, and I don't need to explain this to you, Andrew, but for people out there wondering if you'd like to understand the difference in the temperament and the wiring of me and our friend Neil, it is the fact that you've never heard Neil speak Spanish. And I think Spanish might be his first language and Neil is so low key about it. Could you imagine how insufferable I would be if I spoke great Spanish? I, I would never ever let you forget it. It would, it would be one of the critical things you knew about me from probably the first day we met.

[Andrew Walsh]

Every show would begin with hola, mano.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, exactly. Ketal. Andrew, like I would be insufferable and Neil is so, so, so, so it's a person who does not need to sort of try to, I don't know, wow you in whatever way that I would be trying. You know, he's just like, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, I speak Spanish, dude. I'm from, like, I grew up in Mexico for a significant part of my life. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, well, it didn't come up. Yeah, it would be how I always start every conversation.

[Andrew Walsh]

He is, he is a very low key guy. He and I were talking like we're, we're similar in this way that I feel like we're both the kind of guys who if we show up at a place like we just want to sort of sneak in the room and slowly reveal our presence to people sort of as opposed to like walking into A room being like, hey, let the party begin. We're here. That's not our style, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

Let's do this. Let's. Let's take a quick momentary break that no one will even hear unless someday we get land that DraftKing account again. Which case will dynamically insert a commercial.

[Andrew Walsh]

Insert the duolingo commercial here.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, we just kind of did one honestly, without meaning to, and that will fix echo cancellation. And then I would like to, on the other side, if I can tell you about a high compliment that I received this morning. And then also my. My. My thoughts and reflections on the heavy metal show that I saw last night at the. At Northwest Stadium here in dc. Also the fact that I might be an honorary Washington commander. Now I can tell you about that as well. Maybe right after we do some dazzling donors. We was hoping for some razzle dazzle. Razzle dazzle. That's right, man. Razzle dazzle. On your mark. On your mark. Get set.

[Andrew Walsh]

Get set now. Ready? Ready?

[Luke Burbank]

Go, everybody. Razzle dazzle. All right. Echo cancellation is back. Been canceled, Andrew. That's the kind of cancel culture that I go in for.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, man. Now Echo's been canceled.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, geez. You can't echo anything anymore, man. People have literally no idea what we're talking about. There is a tiny setting in the software that we use to talk to each other remotely, and sometimes it defaults to this little thing that it thinks is helping, but it's not helping because we are radio professionals. Maybe some other lesser broadcast podcast recording, maybe they need the help of the Riverside program to cancel the echo, but we've got a whole system going on, and when that thing auto clicks on, it actually makes our recording worse.

[Andrew Walsh]

So, yeah, if sharp eared listeners, and I do mean Vulcans, want to go back and listen to that first part of the show, you can hear it in these little moments where Luke and I talk over each other a little bit when. Just a little bit of cross talk.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you know I speak Vulcan?

[Andrew Walsh]

I do.

[Luke Burbank]

I've never even brought it up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Greetings, space faring friend. I'm trying to think. I don't think that was. Was that officially Vulcan or was I just speaking?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't actually know if Vulcan is. To be honest with you. I think I've just really, really sent. I think I've really just sent some. Some Star Trek fans into a real tailspin. Because I think when I said I speak Vulcan, what I really meant to say was I speak Klingon, because I think Klingon is the language that's been extensively. What do you call when you create a language? You know, I mean, it's been, it's, it's been sort of developed into its own language that people can speak to each other. I don't know if Vulcan, do they even have their own language or are they just so hyper intelligent that they, that they, you know, that they just, they can adapt immediately? Can Vulcans just learn whatever language they're like? Is there, is there, are there scenes where Spock is saying things in Vulcan to James T. Kirk? I don't remember that. But also, again, I don't know much about that show.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I don't know. The Internet definitely says that Vulcan is a fully built out language though. And there are plenty of places where you and I could learn how to speak Vulcan. Should we.

[Luke Burbank]

Well then I nailed it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Pursue that. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

I have to say I'm glad we fixed echo cancellation because Corey diamond, our first dazzling donor in Brookline, Massachusetts, deserves the highest fidelity of a TBTL broadcast because Corey has been supporting the show for years and years. Corey, of course, is donating a dazzling amount of dough once again, and it's making this whole show possible. Corey says, hey, dummies. My boss and I were in Seattle recently for a few days and during the chit chat, Maria Bamford callback right.

[Andrew Walsh]

There, by the way. And wait, that was in today's intro, wasn't it?

[Luke Burbank]

That was in today's intro, yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Also, and now I feel terrible. I was sort of dissing on the Diamond Club earlier and that's Corey's family's business, that is.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. They've just been in their family for generations.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh my God.

[Luke Burbank]

You were, you were dissing the carving station of the. Of the diamond. I loved the Corey Diamond Club family legacy.

[Andrew Walsh]

The asparagus is to die for.

[Luke Burbank]

And during the chit chat before our many meetings, I casually mentioned the following topics. Corey, if I had my bell here, I'd be dinging along Dick's Drive in Spiro's Pizza. Dori Monson, Seattle garbage pickup and SARS market, backpack policy and the Mandarin Gate.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow, it's all coming together today.

[Luke Burbank]

Corey. We have moved way on from the Mandarin gate as a topic on this show. You got a vibe now get current. We don't talk about the Mandarin. Get any board now it's a different shitty bar that's in the same physical location.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

This show is constantly evol. And I came very close to saying the words culturally. Edmonds.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice.

[Luke Burbank]

The people we met with were quite impressed with my local Knowledge. But my boss was mystified. I love this for Corey, by the way, this is exactly the kind of thing that really kind of floats my boat is when I'm able to be either maybe I'm just crossing paths with paths with someone in the hotel lobby or the elevator or wherever and I'm able to drop in some overly specific knowledge about the place where they might be from. That really, that makes me very excited. That seems to me the kind of thing, Andrew, that would cause you to be concerned that in doing that you are then, then they are going to request even more overly specific knowledge and that's when the knowledge might run out.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right? Right. Oh, culturally Edmonds. Oh, that's interesting. Well, what do you think of Shoreline?

[Luke Burbank]

And then it's like, but see that's I, I live a life without fear. And so I love just dropping, I love dropping knowledge on people even though I have no follow up information if they expand it.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean Corey has to be careful though here too because like getting in like it gets more and, and then it gets into specificity that we've made up. Like culturally Edmonds doesn't mean anything. So at certain you're kind of like, oh yeah, you know where the Mandarin gate used to be? That's interesting. Oh, and you know that the SARS has a strict backpack policy that is not evenly enforced these days. That's very specific. Culturally Edmonds, we're gonna have to ask you to get out of the car and walk the rest of the way.

[Luke Burbank]

You're blowing my mind here. Well, here's where this all led. At the end of the trip, McQuarrie says that the locals were impressed, but his boss was mystified. At the end of the trip he asked when did you live in Seattle? I told him I never did, but I have some friends there. So I've picked up a lot of info over the years. What I didn't add was that my friends are you two and that I've been listening to this podcast every day since 2012. This was another reminder of the way in which you two and the TENS community have become a big part of my life. So I'm happy to, to help keep it going. Thanks to you and to John for all you do and keep up the great work. Corey, I appreciate so much all of your support over the years in various ways and, and I think it was really smart that you didn't tell your boss that we are on a podcast. But that's not because you're not our friend. You are very Much our friend, but he would have thought that you have. He would. He might have called for a mental wellness check. So, yes, and we've said this before, everyone out there listening is absolutely authorized to describe us to other people as your friends. And you do not have to clarify. You legally do not have to clarify that this is a podcast.

[Andrew Walsh]

I did. I think I've said this before, but I pulled that exact move one time. Because you know me, Luke. I am. What's the opposite of a Hooper. Somebody who's not into hoops. I am that. Yes, I'm a pooper. I need that coffee bad. But because I was listening to so much of the Lebatard show, I want to say it might have even been like the. Could have been the bubble year. I don't. I don't know, but I was.

[Luke Burbank]

I forgot about that.

[Andrew Walsh]

The Miami Heat. Now, the podcast I was listening to, like, obsessively is out of Miami, as I talk about a lot on the show. And the Miami Heat were in the actual championship, I believe. I think the Lakers end up winning whatever year I'm talking about. I feel like it was around the pandemic, but we were definitely out in public watching games, because I remember being at Teddy's, and the. One of the basketball games was on, and I was sort of following along more than I ever have to any NBA game in my life, because I knew some of the players, and I.

[Luke Burbank]

Was kind of rooting for my Hasan Whiteside guy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah, this might have been pre Hasan. I think I could be wrong. Or post. I don't know. I don't remember that being a name that popped up. But all I'm saying is, because I've definitely. I paid attention for, like, one hot month, and that was years ago. Somebody said, we're talking a little bit, and I was actually holding up my end of a very, very shallow conversation about the game. Very shallow, very thin. But he did say, why do you root for Miami? And I was just like, oh, yeah, well, my. My friends live there, or something like that. Or my friends are really. I'm like, I don't really know anything about basketball. My friends are really into it. And then just like, it's just like. It's such a great, quick explanation, because you can really just. You can really just stop the conversation in his tracks. If you have to start saying, do you. Do you know this podcast?

[Luke Burbank]

No. And it does. You know, to a person who doesn't have that relationship with a podcast, they'll never get it. And we don't need to waste this one wild life that we have trying to explain why we're so connected to the people that we are. So connected. That's why I always talk about my friend Howard with people who's doing all kinds of things. I talk about how I have this friend Howard who does this really hilarious bit at parties called Fartman.

[Andrew Walsh]

For a second, I didn't realize what you were doing. I thought you were just, just. I thought you were actually revealing that you do sometimes just make up a person as an easy explanation of things. I didn't realize we were talking specifically. It would be funny if your imaginary friend is the limo driver. What's his name?

[Luke Burbank]

Ronnie the limo driver.

[Andrew Walsh]

What if Ronnie was your imaginary friend? That would be even harder to slip into polite conversation. Oh, yeah, what did you do?

[Luke Burbank]

Try to describe. Oh, man, he's out in Vegas and he is going, Honestly, wild for 75 year old man, it's totally unhinged. But Stephanie lets him do it for some reason. Who knows? The weed makes him so horny.

[Andrew Walsh]

My friend Ronnie, he's just going. And your boss is like, how do you know so much about weed, Las Vegas?

[Luke Burbank]

How do you know so much about the maverick helicopter company in Las Vegas? Oh, a friend of mine is always posting Instagram photos of them. The other thing about that, and we really should move on to our next donor, but is that I will say this sounds like I'm attempting a flex here, but I listen to the Howard Stern show a lot. And then I also listen to the why is this Happening Podcast with Chris Hayes. And that one is where I get every talking point that might even sound 5% informed for me about the current state of politics or what have you is always from that show. And I'll say with that one, I could actually legitimately say, my friend Chris said this because we're actually friends in real life. You know what I mean? I'm not even. I'm not even using the podcast exception there. I could, you know, but. But I think so. I think that is kind of what I do. I might say, well, my. My friend Chris was talking about this thing the other day. They don't know that he was talking about it publicly on. Publicly on a podcast.

[Andrew Walsh]

Somebody else, he was talking to somebody.

[Luke Burbank]

To somebody else. And that I was not involved in the conversation that I was. I was holding a glass up to the wall and listening through. That's. That's. But anyway, you know, all that is to say, absolutely everybody is authorized to describe us as their friends to whoever they Want to. To make this whole thing seem less weird. Whatever keeps this whole thing going is what I'm a fan of. So thanks again, Corey, for the support. Maestro. On your mark. On your mark. Get set, get set.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now.

[Luke Burbank]

Ready, ready, go. Everybody rattle. It's our friend Andrew John out there in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now, I love this pronouncer because it is a tough name to say, but this pronouncer nails it.

[Luke Burbank]

Really helps a lot of the pronouncers make it harder. This one makes it easier. And also you're featured in it.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's why I like it.

[Luke Burbank]

Everyone who works for TBTL except me is featured in this. I feel a little left out. Andrew John. It's pronounced what is said before Walsh. What is said before Walsh can never die, by the way.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that's what they always say.

[Luke Burbank]

You pay the iron, if you're aware of that. So it's. It's Andrew, like the thing we say before Walsh, and then it's followed by the thing that we say before Sklarov.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

So it's Andrew John.

[Andrew Walsh]

Andrew John. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Andrew says. Unlike other years where humor could be mined from Luke's long ago speculation that I might be a Trump supporter, current events mean the subject is too grim to be funny. In these times, TBTL has been both a distraction and a refuge. Despite the best efforts of the three biz boys. Sometimes it's not enough. Other hope inducers are rare. One I Recommend is a 60 Minutes news story available on YouTube about a group of 30 high school musicians who were supposed to play with the Marine Band at the Kennedy Center. By the way, I jogged by the Kennedy center today. And this is what I'm talking about. This is. What is such a mind bleep about being here? Like. Like Kennedy center has been the scene of so many amazing cultural moments over the years. And I literally had this thought now. One of the thoughts was, it was a slight uphill to the Kennedy Center. There was a lot of steps from the angle I was at, and I was a little tired, but I was like, should I run by the Kennedy Center? Because I'm out there, I'm on the mall, so I'm kind of bobbing and weaving. I'm trying to avoid the tourists, and I'm trying to get, you know, get back in touch with the great history of this nation. And I'm like, kennedy Center. And then I'm like, it's a bad feeling zone for me right now. And that's not a reflection on any of the people who work there or Perform there. But it's just like, just. It's a bummer.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, it's tough out here.

[Luke Burbank]

Andrew says this 60 Minutes special, or I should say segment, probably it's about a group of 30 high school musicians who were supposed to play at the. With the Marine Band at the Kennedy center through a program that supports musicians of color. The current administration canceled that program because it was dei, so the students were denied that opportunity. Then a group of ex military musicians formed an orchestra and invited the students to play with them. In 60 Minutes came to record and broadcast when Scott Pelley said originally this would have been seen by hundreds, but tonight it will be heard by millions. I mean, Scott Pelley is basically all we have left.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you see the commencement speech that he gave?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, no. I was just referring back to the conversation we had about what he said on the 16 minutes a month or two ago. But.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, right. Departure of their boss.

[Andrew Walsh]

So. No, I. But it sounds like this is up my alley. Yeah, you're right. I feel like I'm putting a lot on his shoulders these days.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Scott, protect Scott Pelly at all costs right now. Yeah, he was giving the commencement speech at a university which, the name of which escapes me at the moment. But it was just in. In typical Scott Pelly fashion, it was. Because the thing about, about Scott Pelley is that he is not overwrought. And this isn't a criticism of how anybody processes the current political climate. People can be at whatever level of rot they choose. You know, I'm not policing how people respond, but there's something about the, the gravitas of a Scott Pelly and the way that he. He's not, he's not over describing things, he's just accurately describing them in a way that seems to be very, very powerful to me. And he was just talking about. He was actually talking about DEI and the, and the, the way that it's just been absolutely sort of the intention behind it and the words even have been absolutely mauled by the current political administration, the current presidential administration anyway, would recommend checking out Scott Pelley and his recent commencement speech and would recommend thanking Andrew John for supporting the program for all these years. Thanks, Andrew. We really, really do appreciate you and hope you're bearing up okay out there in Minneapolis, Minnesota, you and the family. By the way, congrats on your kid too, getting into Boston University. Not too shabby.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hello and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

I was coming back from grabbing some iced coffee today and I don't know if you know, this about me, but I'm an iced coffee boy. I'm sorry to torture you, but I just have to report the facts of my life. And the facts of my life are when I am on the east coast, apparently I transform into a totally different person. A person who really gets into iced coffee. It might also. It might also index with the mugginess of the east coast versus the west Coast. There's something about, like, wanting a coffee but also going, like, it's a little on the warm side here for a hot coffee for me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Was it. Is it. I want to mention, it was 85 degrees here day yesterday. It was so nice. What's it. So it is pretty hot out there, too.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, it's. Here's the thing. It was. Yesterday was abysmal. I can't go into it because I'll just be. I'll be here. I'll be naming nuts for hours. But, like, the weather was so bad, I wondered if we were going to be able to do the film shoot yesterday. Meanwhile, in, like, Portland, Becca is updating me that it's 80 degrees. And I'm sure Seattle was just spectacular, beautiful. I couldn't believe that I had traveled all the way across the country to stand in sideways rain at what felt to be like 46 degrees. Like, we were trying to film in this parking lot with. With some students who had gotten their commercial driving license driver's licenses, which were paid for by the band Metallica. And, like, the camera guy was like, I don't know if I can really shoot this because the rain is going to actually destroy my equipment like it was. And there was something about it being really. I mean, I don't begrudge folks on the west coast in the Northwest enjoying their weather, but there was something about just how different and bad the weather was that I was like, oh, so this morning, not as bad, not raining, not particularly warm. But there's always, you know, this time of year out here in D.C. there's always just a little hint of mugginess in the air. So maybe that was why I was dreaming dreams of iced coffee. But anyway, I'm walking back to my room and notice that the housekeeping cart is, like, one door over from my room. And I noticed that the woman doing the housekeeping is, like, bent over, kind of like fixing something with her cart or doing something with her cart. She kind of turns to me and she says, what room are you in? And I said, oh, I'm in this room. And I said, I don't need any. I don't need any help or I don't need any housekeeping today because I'm actually checking out later today. So I didn't need my room cleaned. And now here's the thing, and this is an overly specific detail, but I actually have the room through tonight. And the reason is because I need to record this with you. So, like, if I was just checking out of the room, there'd be no need for me to clarify. I don't need the room clean because the room has to be clean for the next people. But in this case, there's the weird detail of, like, I have possession of this room until tomorrow technically, even though I'm not going to use it tonight night. So thanks, cbs. But anyway, so I wanted to clarify to the person that I don't need her to come in and clean the room today. And. And so she said, okay. But then as she sort of. She stood up to come over to me, and I realized, and I don't know why these details are important, and maybe they're not, but this. This woman doing the housekeeping was actually significantly older than a lot of the housekeeping folks that I've. That I've kind of shown, just seen out and about in the halls of the many hotel rooms I've been in. And she also was significantly stooped over. And in fact, what I thought was her kind of doing something with the cart was just kind of where her posture's at at this point in her life. And I will not lie that something kind of kind of went through me that was like, wow, you know, now there's a chance that this. This job gives this woman a real sense of purpose in her life, and she really loves it and loves her coworkers. She certainly seemed very outgoing, so I sort of don't want to, like, assume too much. But I also can't deny the thought. I can't deny the fact that I had a thought of, like, wow, man, this is. Seems like it could be a physically really demanding job for. For this person that I'm talking to, you know?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, it makes a hard job harder.

[Luke Burbank]

That's kind of how it struck me, you know, again, without putting too much of my own assumption on this person in their life. But so she was like. She said something. There was also a pretty strong kind of like, language difference, which is like, you know, how's my Hindi, by the way? So there you go. It's like this person's English was a little bit accented, a little bit hard for me to understand, but a lot better. Than the language that I would need to learn to speak to this person in their native language. And what she basically said to me was, okay, I need to. If you don't want me to clean the room, I need to make a call to the front desk from your hotel phone. So they know that. That I've checked this room off, which I'd never heard that before. Have you ever heard anything like that?

[Andrew Walsh]

No. I'm wondering if she's on a improvement plan of some sort.

[Luke Burbank]

It sounds like it might be a little Pippy. A little Pippy? A little performance improvement planning.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, that's very. That's. That's strange. I've never heard of that. Of course not. That's. No, I need to use the phone from your room.

[Luke Burbank]

It's kind of basically like. I think at this particular hotel, they. I guess they don't want the housekeeping staff just. Just sort of deciding willy nilly that a room doesn't need to be serviced. It's like you have to. I guess it sounds like it's a very sort of like, concrete way to. What is it? Sort of double check the truthfulness of the folks doing the housekeeping. Like, okay, well, you have to come in and dial from the phone in the room. You have to dial in a code. Literally, she punched in a code from my room next. From my phone next to my desk that then turned off something in the system that told them that it was okay from me for her to not clean the room.

[Andrew Walsh]

So let me ask you a question, which, if the answer is what I think it is, it's a boring question. But is this the first show that you and I have been doing from. That you've been doing from this hotel room? Because I swear it is the third. So I heard you. It wasn't in the show because we cut it out. But in the middle of a conversation. Yesterday's show, was it yesterday's show, somebody knocked and you said, not now, and they just moved on. They didn't type in any codes.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, my guess would be that they were gonna come back or something. Like maybe they did when I was out of the room. That is a good point. They did not come in and punch in. I've never had this experience before, which is why I was a little confused when this woman was trying to explain this to me. But I was like, okay, whatever. And so then she comes over. Cause I've now un. I've unlocked the door with my key card. And so I'm now opening the door. And now a moment of just absolute panic washes over me, Andrew, because this woman is kind of making her way over to my door, and she's going to push through the door and go into my room to call this system from my phone to then turn off whatever alert is like, you got to clean that room. And I realized that I have not prepared this hotel room for someone I don't know being in this hotel room. And, like, not that there's anything weird going on in here, but it's just. It was a moment of, like, realizing, like, no, this is. I didn't sweep this room. Like, I don't know. I just don't know what the state of it is. Is the bed unmade in a way that is just kind of like, looks very haphazard? Are there clothes?

[Andrew Walsh]

Is there underwear hanging off of a lampshade?

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, well, you know, that's one of the first things I do when I get into the room. So that's. We know that for a fact will be the case. But, like, I'm just like, whoa. I'm like, this is, you know, had I, you know, what's the state of affairs in the bathroom?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, you know, you didn't know you were entertaining?

[Luke Burbank]

I didn't know I was entertaining. And it felt. For some reason, it felt like kind of deeply personal. But this woman was very undeterred. And she sort of goes past me, she pushed into the room, and she goes and she punches the code in on the phone. And I guess whatever she's supposed to do, it works. And she comes back by me, and she just goes, you've been staying here for three or four days. I go, yeah. She goes, this room is really clean.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh.

[Luke Burbank]

And then she leaves. And, Andrew, when I tell you the absolute endorphin rush that coursed through my brain at having a total stranger who works in the housekeeping industry compliment me on the cleanliness of the hotel room that I had did not stage for her. It made me feel like I am a person who is living a life of purpose or something. And I looked around, you know what I thought? I was like, yeah, this isn't that bad. Like, the bed wasn't made, but it wasn't like a disaster. The bed was like. It was like you could tell someone had slept in it, but it wasn't like. It wasn't like animal from the Muppets slept in there. It was like it was relatively in order. And then my clothes, my dirty clothes were all in the, you know, the little plastic bag you get out of the Closet at the thing. Those were. That was. You know, they were in there next to my suitcase, which is on the. The suitcase rack, which had. My clothes are still. I didn't. I don't put my clothes on a trip like this. I don't put my clothes into the dresser, but they're all folded neatly. The clean clothes are folded neatly in my luggage. The dirty clothes are in a bag. There wasn't a bunch. I am glad that I threw.

[Andrew Walsh]

I.

[Luke Burbank]

Last night I was so hungry after the Metallica show that I got some like a falafel kind of a thing or whatever. Like, I doordashed it it. And I only ate a little bit of it. It was yummy. But it was like I ended up kind of full. I did bag that up and take it out with me this morning when I was on my way to get my iced coffee. So that really helped. Like, there wasn't like half consumed food everywhere. But like, I looked around the room and I was like, you know what? This is not bad actually in here. And there was something about that woman, totally unprompted, complimenting me on it, that just really made my day. So I just wanted to celebrate that.

[Andrew Walsh]

W. She didn't see the drifter in the bathtub. You had the door closed.

[Luke Burbank]

She was like. Like the ice machine is out of ice for some reason. And we saw on the camera you taking over 45 buckets of ice into the room, sir.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are those. Are those dental tools? What are. What are those? Wow, that. That's getting a little bit dark. I am also thinking, though it could have been, and I know you don't really go in for this kind of stuff anymore, although you never really went in for super messy foods anyway. But like, I remember specifically staying at a Hotel in St. Paul for an extended period of time. It might have been. I think we spent like maybe a whole week. And then I ended up getting snowed in on the day my flight was supposed to take off. So I had to move to a different hotel and spend a night there. But I remember it was kind of a longish stay in the same room. I think there was housekeeping at that point. But I also remember getting some sort of messy food that involved barbecue sauce. And I don't mean barbecue sauce as a dipping sauce. I meant it had barbecue sauce on it. Because I remember having that thing we talk about on the show sometimes where I'm making a mess with food and I don't have any paper towels, I don't have any napkins, and I'M just like, using, like, white, you know, like towel washcloths or whatever, which I do believe they can get the stains out of those. I don't think you're ruining them forever, but, like, you really have to leave a pile of some just unbelievably unsightly linens for the housekeeping staff. And you just want. You honestly think, what if I just. What if I just change my name and hit the road and nobody will ever find me again?

[Luke Burbank]

I have a system for that, by the way.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Which is so. Because I've been through that many, many times. There is something. There's something kind of unsettling about just like sitting on a bed in a hotel room, just like mowing through some food that's getting everywhere and then wiping it with the towel because, again, they didn't send enough napkins or they're not up to the task. But what I will do with that towel then, or that watch cloth or whatever it is, is I will then fold it neatly and then I will put it. I'll place it within, like, let's say, a towel that I used after the shower, and I will kind of fold both of those up and I will place it on when I'm checking out of the room. I will place that neatly, either on the countertop in the bathroom or maybe even on top of the toilet. So on the toilet tank. And I will close the toilet seat so it's not gross. And then I will. Any kind of used towel, I will sort of fold them up. Up. But it's clear that they're used because they're sitting on top of the toilet tank. But my. My dream, my hope and my prayer is that when the housekeeping folks take that pile of towels, they throw them as a group.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Into the laundry basket. And then that is thrown into the giant industrial washers and they never even get eyes.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's what I think.

[Luke Burbank]

The thing in the middle of it.

[Andrew Walsh]

All, and no harm, no foul. Like, if you're a kid or something and you find, you know, you. You've done something similar to your parents white washcloth or something, like, the parents need eyes on that because at home that needs some special treatment. You don't want to be hiding that. But. And I could be wrong about this if we know anybody in the hospitality industry who can set me straight on this. Well, maybe don't, because I'd like to be blissfully ignorant. But, like, it seems to me like your system is perfect because I think that if somebody. If the staffer who's picking up the towels? Like if they see that one is particularly kind of dirty and not even. I was going to say gross, but it looks gross. But honestly, barbecue sauce, is that any grosser than the towel that you use to dry yourself after a shower? Maybe a little bit, but not significantly. It's not.

[Luke Burbank]

I would honestly, I'd rather deal with barbecue sauce than someone's butt crack.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you. We needed a finer point on that, just like I do on my butt crack. But anyway. Yeah. So you see what I'm saying, if you and I are correct, that these all get swept up and just thrown into some industrial thing anyway with a lot of bleach and they all just kind of, kind of come out the other side and we don't have one person whose job it is to go through and say, oh, well, this one needs treated and this one doesn't. Let's assume that our assumptions are correct. Well then that's great. It just like saves everybody emotional agony.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, absolutely. Yeah. I was, I was, I was, I was heartened to realize that my system. The other thing that I'll do real quick because I guess I'm just on a Luke Burbank is really great kind of tour of the country right now and I just need to tell people more things about me that I do that are exemplary. No, but really, if I could encourage everyone, pick up any and all towels and also the, the towel, the kind of, what do you call it? The, the, the mat. It's never a mat in a hotel room. It's just a towel that's meant to be on the floor outside of the shower. You know, what do you call that?

[Andrew Walsh]

What do I call it? I call it.

[Luke Burbank]

It's not really a bath mat. It's just a towel. Bath towel or something.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I always, I think I do refer to it as the Max. It feels function like even here at home. Like I have a set of towels that has like couple of hand towels, couple of shower sized towels and then what I would call the bath mat.

[Luke Burbank]

I would just say take two seconds when you're checking out of the room, pick all of those up and just like I said, just give them a quick fold and just place them somewhere that does not involve the person who is coming into the room bending over and picking them up, just like kind of nicely place them on a countertop that's at like, you know, waist height or whatever so that the person who's probably, whose back is probably killing themselves of all day dealing with this stuff has one Room where they don't have to get down on the floor and pick something up. Like, small thing. Takes you eight seconds and might make someone's day. Three percent better, you know.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's a great idea. I never thought about that. I always. Only because my own tendencies are to keep things somewhat organized. Anyway, when I am finally leaving a hotel room, or if I'm just leaving, I guess, even for the day, and I have some wet towels or used to towels, I do put them on the floor, but of course I don't scatter them around the hotel room. You know what I mean? I put them all in one. So it's like you scoop it up. That's a. That's a good idea, though. If you put up even, like you said, on top of the toilet seat. Yeah, that. That. That's a little bit.

[Luke Burbank]

It's clear that these are. These have been used like there. There's going to be no confusion.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Luke Burbank]

That's the thought. Now. Now onto my. I told you I'm now the king of iced coffee, which is one of my big, big brand transformations. Brand pivots. And everyone's talking about it. Another brand pivot for me, Andrew, is that I found myself enjoying watching Suicidal Tendencies and Pantera and certainly Metallica play last night at this stadium where the Washington. What are they called now? The Commanders. Where the Washington Commanders also play. I was there, you know, doing this TV story about Metallica, and I was kind of, I'll be honest with you, by the end of the day, it had been a very long day of shooting, kind of tired. And now we were being offered a chance to watch the concert, more or less just as kind of a. Benny kind of as a. Like from the. You know, the management of Metallica, they were like, hey, here's some wristbands which would get us into this, like, suite where we could watch them. But also they gave us a band that would get us into something called the Snake Pit, which is like the. The way that Metallica stages. It's a big. Imagine a big donut. It's a big circle so that they can kind of move around and play towards every part of the stadium. But then in the middle of that circle are people standing there like fans, and it's called the Snake Pit. And you can stand in there. I did not take advantage of going into the Snake Pit, but I did watch them from up in this, like, kind of little luxury box, if you will. Mostly because it meant I wasn't getting rained on, because it rained throughout the entire Show. But first of all, the band Suicidal Tendencies has always just kind of lived in some part of my brain as being so much. Not for me, as you might imagine, just from the name and everything they came out and played at. I want to say it was like 6pm so it's still really light out. The stadium was very, very minimally full. Like very few people had come in. Just probably hardcore fans of that band that were kind of standing very close to the stage. It's raining a lot. It's just like if I were the band, If I were the band Suicidal Tendencies, I'd be like, can we not not, could we just wait on this and like, maybe we don't play today or something. These dudes went out there and just went so hard and were so unfazed by the fact that there was, you know, all of the bleachers were empty at this point because, you know, people hadn't filled in. And none of the light show that Metallica would have was working. In fact, there was a few songs that I legitimately kind of liked. And there was something about the energy of the band. The, the, the fact that. So now I'm sitting there, this is my way of enjoying a band called Suicidal Tendencies. First of all, I put Suicidal Tendencies into my phone. I wanted to find out more about them. I wouldn't recommend doing that. Andrew.

[Andrew Walsh]

I immediately got.

[Luke Burbank]

I didn't put in Suicidal Tendencies banned. I just put in those first two words without even thinking about it. Immediately got a variety of phone numbers to call for help, which I was like, good job, Internet. Like you got this kind of figured out, at least for those words. Like this is what should be happening probably. Then I put in Suicidal Tendencies Band. I didn't realize that the lead singer, Mike Muir, is like brothers with this guy that was in Dogtown and Z Boys, the kind of skating collective from Southern Cal. And that in fact there's a big crossover between like that band and like just kind of early skateboarder guys. There was something about knowing there's a skateboarding connection that kind of made it more palatable to me for some reason because I was really into skateboarding. And I think of those early days of like, I saw this picture of the lead singer of Suicidal Tendencies when he was like probably 17 years old. He's on the COVID of Thrasher magazine and he's wearing like that kind of hat that he's always wearing that says Suicidal. But I have to say, he looked really kind of cool to me. Like the 18 year old version of this Mike Muir guy on Thrasher magazine in like 1982 or something. It just kind of like a weird re. Reorienting of this band in my brain now. Am I going to follow them? Am I going to start following them on the road? No. Am I going to listen to their music a lot? No, but they went from irredeemable in my mind to like, oh, I kind of get why somebody would vibe with this band.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, no, that. That makes sense to me. I think there's a lot of. There's a lot of music. I mean, I think that I liked things that would tend to veer more towards noisy or. Or just even loud or whatever in my life more than you have. But like, there are times, I mean, we were talking about Metallica. I don't know what prompted this, but I feel like a couple of years ago maybe we were talking about Metallica on this show or somebody else was talking about them. I'm just like, yeah, I'll just. And I remember like leaving. Leaving the grocery store in Roosevelt and just like listening to Master of Puppets very loudly in my car, windows up, you know, private moments, like, windows up, tear down just for me and thinking like, oh, yeah, like, I remember like this. This moves me. Like I'm not somebody who would identify as a Metallica fan these days. And I mean, people would look at me and assume I am one, but that's not how I would self identify. But like, you're a psycho.

[Luke Burbank]

Don't buy his cover.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, this is exactly this. There's some. You know, this music moves you, you know, especially when it's done. Well, now, I was going to say, like, it's almost like in the right context, almost any music could sound good, you know, like whether it's live or you go to the other. You could say, I'm not a classical music person, but you go to the. The hat Shell in Boston or something. I don't know, Hollywood bowl, you know, production or something. And it could suddenly be for you. I was gonna say almost anything would sound good except for the song that was playing on the jukebox at the Vibe last night by somebody named New Breed, a part of Outlaw Nation. Welcome to my house. It was just like these two white tatted up, like, looks like just the most, like just every. Well, I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

It's. I'm essentially new is spelled nu nu.

[Andrew Walsh]

Breed and it's Outlaw Nation. And they have guns on the COVID and they're talking, this is my house. It's like somewhere between rap and country and hardcore. So I would say, aside from. So I was going to make a broad statement and say almost any music can sound good in the right context. I would say, except for welcome to My House by Outlaw Nation, Volume 2, featuring Jess and New Breed.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, thanks a lot. We're never going to book these guys on Library.

[Andrew Walsh]

I have nothing to do with that show. Maybe you guys will be more of a welcoming. More of a welcoming landing spot for them. But I would. I would probably say in an editorial meeting, if you were to have them on tbtl, I would probably not have. I'll be there. But I don't know that I'd come with a lot of questions prepared well.

[Luke Burbank]

So I appreciated the, like, I appreciated the. Just the. The commitment of the band, Suicidal Tendencies, to just playing and just going forward and not being kind of, like, bummed about the fact that they were opening and that the place was not at its capacity yet. Then Pantera came out. And the thing is, I don't know anything about that band is not really for me, but I will tell you that, like, in a certain point, at some of the songs, there was like, this, you know, very driving guitar stuff. And I could kind of. I kind of got it too, again. And probably for me, out of the three, the would have been in position number three in terms of, like, musically what I'm into. But it was.

[Andrew Walsh]

I.

[Luke Burbank]

There was not. It was not like, it was without any redeeming value as far as being a thing people could get into, if that makes sense, of course. And then it's like, you know, now it's finally, like, I don't know, nine o' clock and it is. It's gotten dark and, like, it's time for Metallica to come out. Out. And first of all, something really strange had happened, which was like, I kept worrying for Metallica that. Because it was raining and because of, I guess, how these concerts work, I just figured most of the people that were going to be there for the show would be there sitting in their seats or standing out on the infield of this stadium by like, 8pm But I guess not, because at 8pm it was still sparse. And I was like, oh, bad look for this band. And by, like, by the time that Metallica was about to go on, the thing had freaking filled up. And it was like, there was. People were everywhere and they were hyped. And the. The. I guess the song. I was standing next to their manager, so he was explaining this all to me. He was like, first. It was like, first, you're gonna hear the ACDC song. It's a Long Way to the Top if you want to Rock and roll. Which they just play over the like loudspeakers. Just the actual recording which gets the crowd all excited. And they're just showing these pictures of all the like Metallica fans basically over the years, which is making the crowd have a good feeling. And then he goes. And then the Morricone song, the. I think it's from. I forget which, which old you know, kind of like Mexican movie it's from, but it's, you know the, the Modelo that, the song that's now in all the Model.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Whatever. Whatever that song is.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. I used to know the name of it because it is in all those commercials and it's so frequently used. I'm blanking on it now.

[Luke Burbank]

So I guess for like years Metallica has been. That's like that song they come out to is that, that, that song. And I guess it's Morricone, the famous, you know, the famous sort of soundtrack composer. But I didn't realize like it's associated with a particular moment in whatever this film is. I think kind of one of these like they would call them spaghetti westerns or whatever.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I'm quite sure that's from one of the man with no Name movies like the Good, the Bad and the Ugly series. I'm cool. I'm. I would, I would stake a lot on that.

[Luke Burbank]

So this guy in the video or you know, in the clip from the film, which I've again I, I've never seen the film. It made me want to go watch the movie by way the, the way this guy is in a graveyard and he's just like running around. He's running from something. He's kind of stumbling around. But first of all, it's just like, what a cool ass film. Just like holy shit. And then this music is so cool and all of a sudden I become retroactively so stoked that I am like have been hanging out substantially with the guys from Metallica because I've never been to one of their concerts. I've never seen them doing their thing. I have just seen them in like various backstage rooms. This also sounds like what a sad, humble brag. I don't mean it this way, but there was a point yesterday, this is how much I've now spent time talking to James Hetfield, the main guy. I'm like talking to some other people like in the Metallica, whatever. The Metallica industrial complex. I'm Just standing backstage at this stadium and I'm talking to some people and I just look over and Hetfield is walking somewhere and he's just fist bumping me. And I'm not trying to talk to him, I'm not trying to interact with him. Like, I'm like, that was an interesting moment. Like I. I did not, I did not make this happen. Now do I think that was the highlight of his evening? No. Do I think he remembers it? Absolutely not. But the fact that we're on some level on a fist bumping relationship now was like. It was a weird. It was a weird experience for me in that moment. And then later when this crap when the crowd is getting so excited and this cool ass video is playing and then all of a sudden they appear on the stage and they just start playing so fast and so loud and it was so badass. And I was like, I was just talking to these guys. Like I felt this weird rush of just basically like, I don't know what you'd call it, excitement by association or something. And then also just. Just an intense appreciation for how good these guys are at their job. Like, their job is to frigging rock the faces of everyone in that stadium off. And they absolutely proceeded to do that. Like, their musicianship is really pretty incredible. They're just like. They know exactly what they are doing. Which again, none of this should be a surprise, but I've never seen them do this before. I know them just to the degree that I know them as these kind of like overly sweet kind of rocker dudes that I've just been seeing in a totally different context. So it was a. It was a really, a surprisingly fun night to be there.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that's the thing about Metallica too. It's like, it's not. Even if you don't like, you know, loud music or that style of music, like, you can't argue that it's not precise. Like you listen to any of those records. It's not. I mean, and I like some stuff that is like very notably non precise and noisy and weird and experimental. But that is not what they do. Like what they do on every record. Record is very, very, very tight, right? It's a very tight sound.

[Luke Burbank]

Incredible. Like, one of the thoughts I had was like, I was like, I don't. I was like worried for Lars Ulrich, the drummer, because I was like, this is too much drumming for a guy this age.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I know. I mean like gets AARP magazine like.

[Luke Burbank]

You know, he does 100% and he would tell you That. I mean, he is a guy who I've had a few interactions with, weirdly. Like, he was on. Wait, wait, don't tell me. When we were doing it in San Francisco, the first time I met him, he was very nice. Again, because I'm not a Metallica head. I'm never. I was not co. By these guys. So I had met him there and we had a nice conversation. And then I had talked to him extensively when I was in San Rafael, because we're at the Metallica place and they're just like, there. They're just hanging out. You're just bullshitting with them. And he's, like, a very thoughtful dude. And he was talking about the physicality of doing the job, and he's like, yeah, I really have to kind of, like, get back up to speed. And I was like, yeah, all right. All right, gramps. It's not that hard. And then I saw him doing it last night. I was like, this is insane. This guy is making this noise with these drums in this, like. I don't know, what do you call it? Time signature. Like, how is this even happening? Like, I was like, you know, they need to put this guy in a full hyperbaric chamber every night. They need to get him some nano bubbles or something. Like, it was as. It was an impressive athletic feat, what he was doing. And then, yeah, the. Because the other thing was the bass player is a guy named Robert Trujillo. And again, when I was talking to him for the TV story, he was, like, talking about how, like, he gets really nervous before the shows because he doesn't want to mess stuff up. And I was, like, thinking, like, how would you.

[Andrew Walsh]

You.

[Luke Burbank]

You've done this so long? And he was like, yeah, but we. I was like, why are you guys here rehearsing? Like, what is there to rehearse for? He's like, oh, no, no. We have to, like, really, like, learn this stuff again and make sure we really know it. Because it's, like, really complicated, and I get nervous that I'm going to, like, forget it or mess it up. And again, I understood that intellectually talking to him, but then last night, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, no, this makes a lot of sense. Like, you got to really, like, know what you're doing with this stuff.

[Andrew Walsh]

By the way, only for people who are desperately writing into us. The song that you're talking about is. No, no, we didn't get anything wrong. But just to put up to kind of put a tag on it. The Ecstasy of Gold, of course, is.

[Luke Burbank]

That is exactly the song.

[Andrew Walsh]

And it is the Good and the Bad and the Ugly.

[Luke Burbank]

It's in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Yeah, I might. I may watch the Good, the Bad and the Ugly this weekend because again, and maybe it was just that particular moment, maybe it's just a good movie to watch a clip of when 40,000 people are losing their minds with the anticipation about a rock band. But like, I was like, how have I not watched this movie in its entirety before? I mean, I think those are. Clint Eastwood is in that, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, well, that's the one thing that kind of like I. So I. He's the thing that ruins it now, like kind of retroactively. I don't know. I mean, I want to be careful here in the same way that I'd be careful pretending like I'm a big Orioles fan and then you would ask me follow up questions about it. But I really did truly love that trilogy. In fact, I would say, and I'm digging back in the recesses of my brain here and I don't want to mislead, but everybody knows the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I do not remember thinking that that was the best one of the trilogy. I would actually start with the first one, A Fistful of Dollars. They are a bit slow and they have that kind of grainy quality to them. But there are, you know, they're artistically shot, like I remember. I'm pretty sure maybe the second one, For a Few Dollars More was my favorite because I remember buying that one on DVD. That might have been one one, one of the earliest DVDs I bought because I was like, I want this movie. And it's like. And so I would maybe, yeah, maybe start with the second one. But like they are kind of slow and they almost feel like art movies at some time sometimes because they are so slow. But then there are. But then they kind of get slow to a point where they almost grind to a halt. It's like how many we're just going to watch like this, this Bandit chew on his cigar and more and more intense close up scenes or whatever. But no, they are definitely a vibe. It kind of bums me out how I feel so negatively, you know, now about Clint Eastwood and.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, because of Gran Torino?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, just his politics. And I just think that he's probably a pretty. I mean, listen, I know that it was a pathetic moment in politics, but the whole empty chair thing that he did at the rnc, was that the RNC where he did that, like that was the rnc. And again, I don't know, even, even, like, whatever, you can have different political opinions. He hasn't, I haven't heard him weigh in on specifically my stuff, but I think he's always been pretty. Like. I just think that he and I. And not just like in a. Hey, you want smaller government? Okay, we can find some common ground there. I would guess that he's pretty retrograde in a lot of his opinions of the world.

[Luke Burbank]

Really? You think at 99, he's not. However old he is. Yeah, that's a good point, I guess. You. You mean the guy who played Dirty Harry who said, do you feel lucky, punk? Yeah, to some kind of a. To some kind of a. You know, probably a person of color who's like, supposedly marauding or whatever.

[Andrew Walsh]

But didn't we play it on this? Boy, this is going to be tough. Everybody buckle up for Andrew trying to free associate celebrities. But I'm pretty sure this is my.

[Luke Burbank]

Favorite kind of jazz.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's like a cosmic gumbo of confusion and hungoverness and lack of coffee. But Gran Torino, I think, is the movie where. And I learned this through like an SNL bit that was charming and I would say sort of sui generis in its sort of format, which was. It was Weekend Update and was it just like Andy Samberg and. It wasn't Andy Samberg. It was two buddies who were like real life comedian friends on Weekend Update and they were just giving a joint commentary about the way Clint Eastwood Wood worked not one, but two menagerie scenes into his latest movie. And he's in his 80s.

[Luke Burbank]

And I know I keep saying this off air and on air, but was it possibly Mulaney?

[Andrew Walsh]

I think it might have been. It was Mulaney and not Samberg, but somebody else.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, Pete Davidson.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, yes, yes. And they were buddies and they just like. It was so clear that they were just riffing at one point. Like, can you believe this old man who writes his own movies and has all the power of Hollywood? Just like, yeah, I'm gonna write two, three way scenes, two menage aqua scenes with me in them because, you know, I'm 85 years old and this is how I can like kind of wield my, My. My power these days. My virility. Exactly. And they were just like, I wish. I mean, if I can find this. So we think it was Mulaney and Davidson.

[Luke Burbank]

By the way, if I ever put out a heavy metal album, it'll be called Alleged Virility.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, Virility.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, Alleged Virility.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is back from 2019. Is it? I mean, am I getting us too off track if we just.

[Luke Burbank]

No, no, no. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm ready to transition to the Blurs day. So let's play this and then we'll. We'll. We'll move on.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Sounds good. I am. I'm. I'm going to fast forward through this to the point on YouTube where it looks like most people started watching this. So they're introduced, but is it Colin Jost? No. No. Who's the white. Is he the white guy? Joe?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Yeah. I think he.

[Luke Burbank]

Michael Chase the other guy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And then Colin Jost here.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sometimes it looks like I'm Pete's lawyer. Yeah. People usually think he's like an NBA coach and I'm like the controversial rookie. I'm stalling so I can get further into this. By the way, they're talking about the movie the Mule, though, not Gran Torino. Okay, so that's on me. Let me see if I can get closer to the good stuff.

[Luke Burbank]

So in the Mule.

[Andrew Walsh]

The Mule. The Mule. Flynn stars as Earl, a wildly popular botanist. Flower man. Yeah, whoever, after falling on hard times, is hired as a drug mule at age 90. 90 by a Mexican drug cartel run by Andy Garcia, who was rude to me at a Laker game once. I remember that.

[Luke Burbank]

Love that. This is true. Love this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Clint Eastwood drives hundreds of kilos of drugs across the United States. And that's not the weird part. The weird part is that he is 90 and he is driving. He is 90.

[Luke Burbank]

When my grandma turned 90, we bribed.

[Andrew Walsh]

The DMV to flunk her on her driving test. And they did it. Yeah. Why aren't you guys freaking out? He's old, okay? There's a scene where he's driving with, like, no hands and he's like, unwrapping an ice cream sandwich. He's like singing jazz and stuff. It's insane. That's when we realized this was a superhero movie for old people about a guy whose superpower is that he can drive unsupervised.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

And he's like, so good that the head of the drug car played by Andy Garcia, who was rude to me at a Laker game once. Yes, I remember that. True. He throws the Mule a party for being their best driver ever, fulfilling another elderly grandpa fantasy that a 90 year old white man can do any job better than a Mexican, even when the job is Mexican drug trafficking. Oh, yo, we also forgot to mention. Yes. 90 year old, old Clint Eastwood has two threesomes in this movie. And he directed it.

[Luke Burbank]

Two. Two.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think you guys understand. I've had one. I guess you probably have none, right?

[Luke Burbank]

You are correct, sir.

[Andrew Walsh]

According to the Mule, I have a solid 54 years before that window closes.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow.

[Andrew Walsh]

So look out in 2072 for my wish fulfillment movie, the Mulany. So.

[Luke Burbank]

So was that entire thing. Do you think that entire riff was because somebody thought of the Mulani? Was it all reverse engineered from the Mulani? Because that's pretty funny.

[Andrew Walsh]

I feel like these two were just, like, talking about that movie and just. God, I just love the way. And I mean, clearly this is like, very well scripted and they know where they're going to kind of jump in and finish each other's sandwiches. But I just. I just love you're back, baby, Back. I just love. I mean, you just feel the friendship, like, emanating off of these guys. I love that so much.

[Luke Burbank]

Absolutely. It's also very interesting because I'm guessing this is after Mulaney had done his stint in rehab.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. That he was saying, like, so that.

[Luke Burbank]

Was kind of the big. Yeah, his, you know, a sober life and all of that. Also, Andrew, I, you know, know it's a Thursday, which means it's the day after the last. Everybody's live with John Mulaney, which I couldn't watch last night because I was heavy metal rocking. But when I get home tonight, back to the Madrona Hill studio, my big plan, I think, is to watch John Mulaney fight three 14 year olds. So maybe, maybe I can talk about that on the show tomorrow.

[Andrew Walsh]

Big weeknight.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, sir. There's a right way to rock and.

[Andrew Walsh]

A wrong way to roll.

[Luke Burbank]

You can't just.

[Andrew Walsh]

Just listen to your song.

[Luke Burbank]

Just remember that life is number one.

[Andrew Walsh]

You can be having so much fun. Just remember that life is much fun.

[Luke Burbank]

You can be nothing but.

[Andrew Walsh]

All right, Luke. Relics. Relatively short blurs day segment today, but a special one. I mean, they're all so special. If you want to wish somebody a happy birthday, Happy Blursday. Email me andrewbtl.net, blursday. In the subject line. We got this one that says happy Blursday to Nancy from Megan. May your day be filled with iced instant java. Well, maybe you could be into that, Luke. Cheers to another year bonding over some of our favorite TBTL topics, with which are cat talk, garbage anxiety, and hard75.ish. I was waiting for you to finish that Malaysia, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

As I always say, it is ish.

[Andrew Walsh]

All right, and then we Have a special blursday coming from inside the fam. Luke, this is.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait a minute.

[Andrew Walsh]

Your sister Hannah saying happy blurs day to my sister Sarah Joy. She's the funniest, most appropriately inappropriate person I know. And also one of the most genuinely kind. I love you, sis. That's from Hannah. And I know that you also wanted to. I'm not just saying. I'm not just covering for you here. I know that you also wanted to wish Sarah a happy blurs day today, Luke.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, yeah, but see, Hannah stole my thunder there in a certain way because.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because.

[Luke Burbank]

Can you reread what Hannah said to our sister Sarah over the air? Because it's almost exactly what I said to our sister on the Hawk squad today.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh really? Okay. So happy blurs day to my sister Sarah Joy. She's the funniest, most appropriately inappropriate person I know. My favorite sibling by a long shot. And also one of the most genuinely kind. I love you, sis.

[Luke Burbank]

I wrote this morning. Happy birthday Serzi. You feel every family get together with love and sweetness and wildly inappropriate jokes that are frankly a bad example for the children in the room. What would we do without you?

[Andrew Walsh]

I see the inappropriate thing. I feel like. No, this is just. The brand is strong with Sarah.

[Luke Burbank]

Maybe that's what it is. Maybe the brand is just really strong. Because I'm just wondering if like Hannah incepted me in some way and went in and like stole what I was gonna write this morning on the Hawk squad and then wrote it in an email like days ago and sent it to you as a blurs day.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, let's see. Or when did you. Yeah, stole it days ago. Cause I was gonna say when did this come in? We could really see sleuth this. Oh, you know what? This is going to be a kind of a race to the wire, this email from your sister. And I love the fact that I'm taking this to such a negative competitive place.

[Luke Burbank]

No, I'm the one. I'm the one that needs answers.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hannah sent this in at 7:24am this morning on.

[Luke Burbank]

Are you kidding me?

[Andrew Walsh]

Blurs, what time did your text. Wait, I need to know. 7:24am from Hannah.

[Luke Burbank]

West coast.

[Andrew Walsh]

West coast, my time, 7:24am oh my.

[Luke Burbank]

God, Andrew, we have a full on crime on our hands.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did you send that at 7:22?

[Luke Burbank]

7:21. You know what the timestamp 7:21 West coast is when I sent my message to the Hawk squad.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are you serious?

[Luke Burbank]

Andrew, I would never lie to you about this. 7:21. I sent a message to everyone, including my former sister, Hannah. Three minutes later, she's emailing the Blurs Days with almost word for word my message and stealing that valor. Not today, honey. Not today.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, this is really, truly in the spirit of the Blurs Day segment. Sure is. I think we really did some really good work. We have torn a family asunder.

[Luke Burbank]

Happy Blurs day, sirs.

[Andrew Walsh]

We love you indeed. All right.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, you know what? I was gonna say we should wrap things up because I've got to rush to my flight, but, Andrew, great news. Flight delayed. Oh, a flight delayed is a flight denied. So who knows when I'm gonna get home tonight, but hopefully it'll be someday.

[Andrew Walsh]

That bad weather you were talking about?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't think so. I think the weather's okay now. I think it's just. I think it's just what's going on with the general situation with the airline, airlines. It turns out you. You put a guy who was on the Real World in charge of it. True story. And. And you. You. You stop spending on training and other things, and things get a little tough out there for the. The airline situation. But all that is to say, I ideally will be back home tonight at the Madrona Hill studio at some point, and we'll be joining you all from there tomorrow morning when we bring you the Friday edition of tbtl. So we're hoping that you'll be able to make some time for that. In the meantime, have a great Thursday, everybody. And please remember, no mountain too tall.

[Andrew Walsh]

And good luck to all. Power out.