#4516 What About Bob?

Summary

Podcast Summary: TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
Episode #4516: "What About Bob?"
Release Date: July 23, 2025

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Introduction and Listener Messages (00:00 - 01:52)

The episode kicks off with greetings and playful banter between hosts Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh. Listener Kristen from Thunder Bay, Ontario, shares a heartfelt message reflecting on her decade-long relationship with TBTL. Kristen expresses gratitude for the show's whimsy, friendship, and the supportive TBTL community, stating:

“I just wanted to say thanks for being a 10.”
— Kristen, 00:00

The hosts engage in light-hearted humor, referencing "doggy butt" and teasing Andrew about earphones and selling out, setting a friendly and relaxed tone for the episode.

Fundraiser and Show Overview (01:52 - 06:05)

Luke introduces the episode as part of the "Let the Fun Begin" collector series and mentions the ongoing TBTL a-thon, an annual fundraiser supported entirely by listeners. He emphasizes the importance of community support in keeping the podcast independent:

“All of the best they can.”
— Luke Burbank, 02:00

Andrew humorously refers to himself as a "two-time loser" but remains optimistic about the show's ability to uplift his spirits.

Guest Appearance: Bob Goff from Wisconsin 106 (06:05 - 44:37)

Introducing Bob Goff

Bob Goff, known as "Bob in the Morning" from Wisconsin 106, joins the show live in Friendship, Wisconsin. The hosts express excitement over his appearance and discuss his radio station's unique local focus amid the dominance of major networks.

Discussion on Radio Broadcasting

Bob shares insights into running a local radio station, highlighting the challenges and rewards of maintaining a personal connection with listeners. He explains how Wisconsin 106 stays relevant by focusing on local content and community engagement:

“We literally are local. I live in the area...”
— Bob Goff, 17:44

Contest and Listener Engagement

The conversation shifts to a "Question to Ponder" contest, where listeners answer thought-provoking questions. Today's topic revolves around the frequency of paper cuts in a lifetime, sparking a humorous and mathematical debate:

“It's embarrassing and it's gross, but at least it's kind of funny.”
— Andrew Walsh, 01:36

Bob Goff’s Contributions

Bob generously provides station swag for the hosts, including golf towels, campfire mugs, and sunglasses, further strengthening the bond between TBTL and Wisconsin 106. The hosts and Bob discuss the importance of local radio and reminisce about their shared experiences in the industry.

“I have been here since 2013...”
— Bob Goff, 16:55

Technical Challenges and Future Collaborations

The group jokes about potential technical issues during live broadcasts and expresses enthusiasm for future collaborations. Bob invites the hosts to appear on his show, promising a fun and engaging segment.

“We are keeping the lights on. It's a little bit of a struggle...”
— Bob Goff, 18:35

Listener Call-In: Justin from Spain (30:04 - 44:37)

Introduction of Justin

Justin, a long-time listener from Almendralejo, Spain, calls in to share his appreciation for TBTL. He recounts his journey with the podcast, starting from his teenage years, and expresses excitement about the hosts' visit to Wisconsin.

“I've been listening to TBTL since I was 15.”
— Justin, 32:08

Job Search and Personal Stories

Justin discusses his career path, including roles as an au pair, English teacher, and traffic manager at a trucking company. He also mentions his podcast, "The Compassionate Haters," and seeks support in his job search.

“Jake Scheidel, the perfect daddy.”
— Luke Burbank, 74:56

Interaction and Support

The hosts engage warmly with Justin, offering encouragement and discussing the value of personal connections and community support.

“We would not be going on the Bob in the Morning show tomorrow if you hadn’t been here.”
— Luke Burbank, 70:58

Main Discussion: Airport Pickup Etiquette (48:00 - 75:58)

Reddit Post Analysis

Luke and Andrew delve into a Reddit post about friendship tensions arising from late-night airport pickups. They dissect the scenario, questioning its authenticity and reflecting on generational differences in communication and expectations.

“I feel like this entire letter is completely faked.”
— Luke Burbank, 55:41

Personal Anecdotes

The hosts share personal stories about airport pickups, emphasizing the importance of setting boundaries and the shift towards using services like Uber. They highlight how technology has changed traditional friendship norms.

“I'm the kind of guy who would just call an Uber for him.”
— Luke Burbank, 66:56

Friendship Dynamics

Andrew discusses his experiences with flight schedules and the balance between personal responsibilities and helping friends, underscoring the evolving nature of friendships in a modern context.

“We always have the conversation.”
— Andrew Walsh, 58:07

Conclusion and Fundraiser Push (75:58 - End)

Final Call-Ins and Promotions

The hosts wrap up the episode by encouraging listeners to join their Zoom hangout for a music-themed show and to participate in the ongoing fundraiser. They emphasize the community aspect of TBTL and the importance of listener support.

“We keep forgetting about that.”
— Luke Burbank, 78:04

Closing Remarks

Luke and Andrew express heartfelt gratitude towards their listeners, acknowledging the support that sustains the podcast. They leave listeners with a positive message about overcoming setbacks and valuing friendships.

“No mountain too tall.”
— Luke Burbank, 80:44

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Key Takeaways

• Community and Friendship: The episode highlights the strong sense of community among TBTL listeners and the emphasis on genuine friendships both on and off the air.

• Support from Peers: Interactions with Bob Goff from Wisconsin 106 and listener Justin underscore the importance of support networks in sustaining and growing the podcast.

• Adaptation and Resilience: The hosts discuss adapting to unexpected challenges, such as technical issues and changes in plans, reinforcing the theme of "Too Beautiful To Live" by finding beauty and positivity in adversity.

• Generational Shifts in Communication: The analysis of the Reddit post about airport pickups reveals differing expectations and communication styles across generations, prompting listeners to reflect on their own friendships and boundaries.

Notable Quotes

• Kristen: “I just wanted to say thanks for being a 10.” (00:00)

• Andrew Walsh: “One man's too much information is another man's just enough information.” (01:36)

• Bob Goff: “We literally are local. I live in the area...” (17:44)

• Justin: “I've been listening to TBTL since I was 15.” (32:08)

• Luke Burbank: “No mountain too tall.” (80:44)

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This episode of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live seamlessly blends humor, heartfelt conversations, and community engagement, offering listeners an enriching experience that underscores the podcast's commitment to friendship and mutual support.

Transcript

[Kristen]

Hey guys, this is listener Kristen in Thunder Bay, Ontario and I am time banditting and I just listened to the show where John was getting really emotional about being part of TBTL and how brave of a risk it was for him to take the leap to join you as a business boy and be part of this beautiful podcast machine that we have all built together. And I just wanted to say that that touched me in my feels though, and I just wanted to share how much TBTL has meant to me over the last 10 plus years of being a listener. I'm so thankful for the whimsy and friendship and wonder that you guys and the TBTL 10 community brings to my everyday. And I just wanted to say thanks for being a 10. Power out.

[Andrew Walsh]

TBTL.

[Kristen]

Doggy butt, doggy butt.

[Luke Burbank]

Doggy, doggy, doggy butt. Doggy butt. Doggy butt. Doggy, doggy doggy butt. Flashes of Quincy.

[Andrew Walsh]

You're here to make friends. Making Friends is the name of this show.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel a real need to express something, but I don't know what it or how to express it.

[Kristen]

Don't you kind of feel like a sellout?

[Luke Burbank]

Can you really call it a sellout.

[Andrew Walsh]

When they give you a free Tesla for doing the show? Tmi. Tmiwip more like it.

[Luke Burbank]

Too much.

[Andrew Walsh]

One man's too much information is another man's too little information. TLI and one other man's jei Just enough information. It's embarrassing and it's gross, but at least it's kind of funny. And boom goes a dynamite.

[Luke Burbank]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Is it too early to get a fish sandwich?

[Luke Burbank]

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host.

[Andrew Walsh]

You paint your bald spot?

[Luke Burbank]

What bald spot? Coming to you once again from beautiful downtown Friendship, Wisconsin, where it's been an interesting day in the weather department. It started off raining. Didn't know you liked to get wet though. But now is somehow also brutally hot.

[John Sklaroff]

Never kick a cow turd on a hot day.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a sort of a a weather pattern that I'm not used to being from the Pacific Northwest, but we are sure enjoying it out here as we arrive at episode 4516 in a collector series, Let the Fun Begin, which is also day three of the TBTL a thon banding together. Thank you for being a 10. This, of course, is our once a year fundraiser. We remind you all this is 100% listener supported. We've turned down the big bucks from the major corporations and the other advertisers. It's easy to turn it down when they're not offering it. But the point is, we need you all to help us keep doing this. Thank you so much to everybody who's already supported us and to the folks that are going to be able to do that as the week continues. That's why we're here in Friendship, Wisconsin. The show is about friendship. All the flavors of ice cream in the world wouldn't take the place of friends. And again, we're having a great week. We are going to try to take phone calls today. The phone number, 206414TBTL. Oh, be honest. The phone connectivity was in and out this morning, by which we mean the Internet connectivity was a little in and out. So we'll just have to play that sort of by ear. The guy in charge of all of that, who's going to be tasked with handling that, is of course the longest running cobra of the show. Maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships.

[Andrew Walsh]

The guy is a nut bar.

[Luke Burbank]

A nut bar. He's Andrew Walsh, who's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good morning, Luke. I'm joining you today, as you well know, as a two time loser. Two time loser today. Checking in. So I'm a little bit down, but I'm hoping that today's show and the tbt I can pick me up a little bit.

[Luke Burbank]

I have a feeling your mood is about to change in a very, very extraordinary way. More on that coming up in a moment. We also have to say hi to this guy, TBTL employee numero uno. Finally, in day three, the possessor of actual headphones that actually work.

[Andrew Walsh]

Turn it up.

[Luke Burbank]

I want to hear it. He's John Sklaroff. Hello, buddy.

[John Sklaroff]

Hey, guys. How's it going? I'm a real boy today.

[Luke Burbank]

I know right now people hear the drops and everything. If you're just tuning in today, Andrew was so incredibly assiduous in his packing for this. He thought of everything except one tiny thing which is a connector that connects studio headphones to our headphone amp. He brought one of them, which I'm using, and he did not have one for John Sklaroff.

[Andrew Walsh]

So can I correct you there for one second? Well, not only that, but the problem.

[Luke Burbank]

Is you're trying to show off because of our guest, Andrew.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, that's why you're being defensive. No, no, I'm actually gonna throw myself further under the bus. No, it's not that I didn't think of it. The key is that I did think of it. I brought one instead of two. And I thought, should I bring two? And I thought, no, you can't bring everything in your tackle box full of audio equipment.

[Luke Burbank]

I thought you like it was a camel's nose under the tent. If you brought that other headphone adapter, then what else would you bring?

[Andrew Walsh]

So I didn't bring something that's an inch and a half long.

[John Sklaroff]

I'd really like to further absolve Andrew. Where a Saturday, as I was preparing to pack for the week, I had the piece, the connector that I own in my hand. And whatever reason, Sunday, when I finished packing, it was not in the bag. So that's. It's 100% on me.

[Luke Burbank]

All that is to say, we ordered some new headphones. They came to the Airbnb. John is wearing them now. They look great, they feel great. It's really good to have you now officially part of the conversation, whereas you could not hear the phone calls or the audio. Speaking of people who can't hear the phone calls or the audio, we actually have a special surprise. Surprise guests who just popped in here to the Adams County Historical Society, which is where we're at once again. Surprise, surprise, surprise. I have a feeling, Andrew, that you're trying to keep it kind of cool right now, but internally, you are, in.

[Andrew Walsh]

The words, freaking out.

[Luke Burbank]

You're in the words of Steve Coogan.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my God, I'm freaking out.

[Luke Burbank]

You were freaking out because. Joining us right now from all the way down the street in Adams, Wisconsin, in Wisconsin 106, is Bob Goff, aka Bob in the Morning.

[Bob Goff]

Hello, everybody.

[Luke Burbank]

How are you?

[Bob Goff]

I am. I am great. I hope you guys are doing as well. Welcome to friendship.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you. I am. I am your. I can't say I'm your biggest fan because I don't know your entire listening audience, but I gotta be your newest biggest fan.

[Bob Goff]

I. I will give you that one all the way.

[Andrew Walsh]

I've been listening every morning since we've been here. As. As you heard me allude to, I have entered. We'll get more into this in a second because I hate to say it, but I also have a bone to pick with you.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, he's been listening. He's been listening for two days and he already has. He has some tips.

[Andrew Walsh]

I have some notes. No, no.

[Bob Goff]

Big surprise, quite frankly.

[Andrew Walsh]

I've been entering that contest. I'm going to win those tickets. I can't even use those tickets to the state fair because I won't be here. But damn it, I'M going to win those. Oh, wait, today was the last day you had those tickets.

[Bob Goff]

I have more one. One more four pack to give away separate from the question to ponder. I have two more for the rest of the week.

[Luke Burbank]

Can I just lay something on you, Bob? Don't waste them on him. He's gonna be throwing darts in his basement in Seattle, Washington by Sunday afternoon and he's not gonna be able to use the tickets.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, it is true, but it's just more of the thrill of the hunt for me, you know?

[Bob Goff]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. So, Andrew, can you please take us through your very short but very intense journey with Wisconsin 106 and particularly with Bob in the Morning.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, as far as I know, Bob in the Morning is the only show on Wisconsin 106. I know that's not true because I looked at your website, but I've only been listening to the mornings now. And let's see, I said I listened the past three days. I think I. Yeah, I think I started listening on Monday and then maybe Tuesday morning was the day I first heard the question to ponder contest. Right.

[Bob Goff]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

And yesterday the question. I know today's. What was yesterday's question?

[Luke Burbank]

It was the blue blocker sunglasses, which I. And full disclosure, Bob, because I don't want you to hear this later. Yeah, I was pretty suspicious of that answer. Hey, first of all, I think you may have gotten it from ChatGPT and. Or the CBC broadcasting in 2013, because we both entered. It was Andrew's idea first, but we both entered what we think is the correct answer, which is in order to get a better night's sleep, you should turn your cell phone off 30 minutes before going to bed.

[Bob Goff]

That's a lot of studies say that. But this is a, this is a study.

[Luke Burbank]

You're doing your own research.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah, Every single, every single question that I ask, I've got research behind it.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

And like yesterday's question was, what should you do 90 minutes before you go to bed.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay.

[Bob Goff]

In order to get a better night's sleep? And this particular study from a couple of years ago said, put on a pair of sunglasses. And that's, you know, it could be any type of sunglasses.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. Although what I was pointing out because I felt very defensive of Andrew yesterday that he didn't win. He's always looking out on his first attempt. Older brother was. I was like, yes, but if the sunglasses are intended to block out blue light, which what the Internet was telling me, and the phones emit the blue light, you could either turn the phone off or you could put on the sunglasses. Those would be serving the same purpose. I thought that those would have both been considered correct answers.

[Bob Goff]

Well, and you could also say that, you know, just dimming the lights in the room would help.

[Luke Burbank]

Or have it taking a sexy shower, which was one of the answers.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah, I love that one.

[Luke Burbank]

Which felt pretty racy for seven in the morning in Wisconsin.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah, you should, you should see some of the ones I don't read on the air or here's some of the ones I get on the phone.

[Andrew Walsh]

I did want to ask you, because today's winner. And we'll get to today's question in a second. And the answer. But I know today's winner, you said, oh, it's our pal so and so from some area. And I can't remember who it is off top of my head, but I'm wondering, do you get a lot. You hear from a lot of the same people every morning?

[Bob Goff]

Oh, yeah, very. Even if after they win. Because we have. We have 90 days where you can't win on the contest. And I went. I had to go to that. Yeah. Because I had so many regular winners.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

So I went to 90 days to win. And even if they win, they still answer the question.

[Luke Burbank]

Sure, sure.

[Bob Goff]

Because it's kind of a game with them and their friends as well.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, it's becoming the favorite game in our Airbnb out there in Quincy. Andrew, do you want to talk about today's question?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, today's question, in fact. I don't know if this is weird for you, Bob, but I could maybe even just play today's question, like right here. Sure. So let's.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm telling you to ponder for the day.

[Bob Goff]

Today is the following. According to research, this will happen to most people about 400 times in their lifetime.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. So there that. That question.

[Luke Burbank]

We're letting the TBTL listeners ponder this as well. Those that didn't play the game this morning.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah. If you've already played, don't, don't enter. Let the other folks have a chance.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, but. Okay, so Andrew did what he has been doing this whole week, which is. John and I are sitting in the kind of dining room area of our Airbnb Andrew, because he has his own bathroom. You don't know this. He's the diva of the show. Whenever we, whenever we stay somewhere, he has to have the finest accommodation.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's an ensuite.

[Luke Burbank]

He has the nice room at the Airbnb with a bathroom attached to it. We don't even see him till 10 minutes before it's time to come down here.

[Andrew Walsh]

And if they look me in the eye.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, no, there's a policy. No direct eye contact. He comes out of his chambers, and he's playing the. He's playing your station on his phone, and he says to me, he says what the question is, which is something that happens to people 400 times in their lifetime on average or whatever. And he said the answer he submitted was what, Andrew?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I want to tell you my thought process here. I immediately thought stubbing your toe. I thought, okay, stubbing your toe. And you mentioned later on in the show that a lot of the answers did have to do with, like, some sort of bodily injury. Right. So I'm assuming it was a minor bodily injury. Stubbing your toes seemed high to me.

[Luke Burbank]

Like 400 times in a lifetime. Seems high.

[Andrew Walsh]

That. Yeah, that. That seems like a.

[Bob Goff]

Unless you're me too high.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, is that true? Is that true? That's one of the most painful things that can happen.

[Luke Burbank]

He hobbled in here, everyone.

[Andrew Walsh]

He's on crutches. And so then I went with biting your tongue, which you did read. I got very excited today when I heard your. You read my answer? I don't know. Did you get a lot of that today? A lot of biting your tongue?

[Bob Goff]

There was quite a few bites in your tongue, but not as many as I thought. Thought there would be.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think afterwards. That's a really good answer. And I was like, yeah.

[Bob Goff]

And it was.

[Luke Burbank]

It was really good. Can I explain, Ra Shamond style? My experience of the correct answer, which is to say my perspective on the whole thing, was I was getting out of the shower. I was down kind of on the poor side of town where John and I share a very small bathroom.

[Bob Goff]

There is no poor side in Quincy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, well, that's the poor side of the Airbnb.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, the poor side of the manufactured Airbnb that we are currently in. But I'm getting out of the shower, and I hear that John and Andrew are crowded around Andrew's cell phone like a family in the 1950s gathered around the Radiola. There was a dog with its head cocked looking at it. I know. I'm mixing radios and Victrolas, and let's just go with me.

[Bob Goff]

Thank you, Nipper.

[Luke Burbank]

And I hear that was the name of that dog, right?

[Bob Goff]

Yep.

[Luke Burbank]

So I just. I stepped out of the shower, and I'm gonna swear now I'm. But this is. You know, I want to give everyone a trigger warning. I just hear John yelling, that is bullshit. Okay, maybe horseshit. I just hear the angriest yelling from, from down the hall and I pop my head out and I go, what happened? And they said, it's paper cuts.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's paper cuts.

[Luke Burbank]

Now.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now John and I immediately start doing the math on that. We're like 4, 400 in a lifetime. And I'm saying, okay, let's say you live to be 80 years old. That five paper cuts a year. Are we getting five paper cuts a year?

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, no, that's not.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, am I not doing that right?

[Luke Burbank]

No way. It's gotta be way more than that.

[Bob Goff]

I'm thinking 50.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is it 50?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Because 80 times 10 would be 800. So it'd be times 5. Oh, that was your math, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

So we're saying somebody on YouTube would do the math for us. Please.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did I mess this up that bad? It's 50. 50 a year.

[John Sklaroff]

No, it's 5.

[Andrew Walsh]

5 a year.

[Bob Goff]

Just 5.

[Andrew Walsh]

But that still seems expensive.

[Luke Burbank]

That would be 400 at the end of an 80 years of. Okay, okay, wow. This is going down.

[Andrew Walsh]

So we are, we are going.

[Bob Goff]

If you work in an office like I do off the air, that's low. Trust me.

[Andrew Walsh]

You think so Five a year is low.

[Bob Goff]

Five a week.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are you serious? You also really got bitten by 400 mosquitoes just a day alone?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

I will not show you my arms on the camera.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, wait a sec though. Because that also, I have to say did create what I think is one of Andrew's better retorts of the week. Talking about here's what I said was if I get 400 paper cuts, let's just say I get 300 paper cuts in my life. I might, let's just say I would be pretty upset and I might think that I'm not living my life the right way if I'm getting paper cutted that many times. And then Andrew, you said, oh, I.

[Andrew Walsh]

Said I would certainly quit my job at the lemon squeezing factory.

[Luke Burbank]

I thought that was a pretty good spoof.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, thank you.

[Luke Burbank]

I thought that was.

[Andrew Walsh]

Don't let any, don't let any of my jokes go unaired.

[Luke Burbank]

That is right.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is a waste of time.

[Luke Burbank]

We use every part of the Andrew comedy. But anyway, this is like, it's been so fun, Bob, to like kind of get into your guys radio station as outsiders. Because we are, Andrew and I are, you know, been doing radio for like years and years and both worked in local radio in a bunch of different places and we had actually been having lunch at the Sugar Shack and then we were Just crossing the street and we saw your studios.

[Bob Goff]

You should have come in.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, it was after three, so I think you guys were. Somebody was. Whoever was on that shift was, I think, doing some paperwork or something. But we were so taken with the location and right there on Main street in Adams. And also then when we started looking into the station, seeing that you do. Have you got you in the morning and then. Is it. Is it Patty?

[Bob Goff]

Patty's on there right now, in fact, doing our all request lunch hour.

[Luke Burbank]

Nice. And then you got the afternoon guy.

[Bob Goff]

Afternoon guys. Joe Dessert, who was the guy who originally purchased the station when I first came over back in 2013.

[Luke Burbank]

Nice.

[Bob Goff]

And he still hangs with us even though he sold the station in 2019.

[Luke Burbank]

And then, of course, Delilah at night. I mean, you just. It can't get any better than that. Maybe. Yeah. It's a music station. Okay. Other than Coast to coast with Art Bell, Rest in peace. There's no better late night programming than Delilah, in my opinion. But we love the fact that you have a thriving local radio station with like live human beings actually DJing and hosting.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah, it's. It's kind of unique nowadays, really, when you get right down to it. I'm. I've been. Like I said, I've been here since. In fact, my anniversary is coming up August 8th. Will be from 2013 till now.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow. Congratulations.

[Bob Goff]

I've been with the station and it's been in its current form since the fall of 2019.

[Luke Burbank]

And how is it going? Because, you know, obviously radio as an industry is really complicated these days and there's so much contraction and so much just like, you know, iheartradio and these big, big companies just kind of taking a lot of local stations and putting them on as essentially repeaters. How are you guys actually doing it so that you are like, it's working. You're. You're a radio station with real human beings who go in there and play songs.

[Bob Goff]

The big thing is that we literally are local. I live in the area. Patty actually owns Cabins on the Lake, which is just up the road from here. And she works our midday and then she runs her little thing. But we keep it as local as we possibly can. The program is all done by myself.

[Luke Burbank]

You're also the general manager.

[Bob Goff]

Basically what the concept of the station is. I loaded in my music library from home and hit play.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow.

[Bob Goff]

That's really what it is. You'll hear everything from some really cool hip stuff from the 60s all the way to stuff in the 90s and even a little bit beyond now I'm starting to work myself into the 2000s and the middle mid teens and stuff.

[Luke Burbank]

Do you guys. This is a very boring radio question. Do you guys, do you go out and do the sales? Do you have a salesperson? How does that work?

[Bob Goff]

We, we have a part time salesperson. I do a bulk of it. In fact, I do the bulk of it. And then our owner actually goes out.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay.

[Bob Goff]

And does stuff. Marcus is the owner of Marcus Jaeger.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

Lives in Illinois, but he has property on Mirror Lake up here in the Dells. And that's how he found the station and purchased it back in 2019. So.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And it's working. You guys are keeping the lights on?

[Bob Goff]

We're keeping the lights on. It's. It's a little bit of a struggle, but I think the, the biggest thing for us is I keep my head down. I really don't care what, you know, the major players are doing. We have some local folks here in the state that we kind of bump up against, but they're all friends. Yeah, they're all guys that I know that I've. And one of them I've worked with in the past and just kind of do what we do and do what we can to best serve our area here. We've got two of the. We've got the second and fourth largest lake lakes in the state on our western border. And we have like a playground that we get people coming up in the summertime from Illinois, from Michigan, from Iowa, from Minnesota. And my goal is to just let. Help them have a good time while they're here.

[Andrew Walsh]

How big is the reach? How much of an area?

[Bob Goff]

What I always tell our advertisers is, is our bulk signal is from Watoma, Tatoma, east to west.

[Luke Burbank]

Sure.

[Bob Goff]

And then north to south. It's usually Wisconsin Rapids to Sauk City. So you can pick us up. I've gone on the interstate and I have picked us up all the way in just past Lodi to where they're hopefully going to be building a buc ee someday soon.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, we've been hearing about that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because I was sort of wondering while you guys were talking about the advertising. Well, one thing I was telling Luke about this actually over breakfast next door at the diner. I just think it's so cool. Like, I'm in love with local radio. And as Luke said, there's so there's fewer and fewer stations that do what you guys are doing. And I mean, literally. I don't know if we said this explicitly today. You're literally Sitting in front of a window, looking out onto main street. I mean, it's the dream. And you were doing, you know, an ad read, I think, for one of the sponsors for the contest. And you said, well, I'm looking at them right now across the street. Yeah, I just love that. I love that so much. But also with such a small town, I wonder, like, you can't only rely on advertisers that are on this small stretch of downtown. You must go wider than that.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah. There are a lot of towns and stuff around the area that we do rely on for advertising and things like that. Plus we have things from outside. We have Ho Chunk casino up in Nakoosa is one of our larger sponsors for the station.

[Luke Burbank]

You got any gift cards for Ho Chunk? No, I got any free, I don't know, trip to the buffet.

[Bob Goff]

I don't yet. But I'm actually gonna have a meeting with Rose, who's the marketing gal up there, and we'll say hi to her and hopefully get some.

[Luke Burbank]

So I want to mention that when Andrew and I were having breakfast this morning over at the family affair, I did note that they were playing an iHeartradio station. And I went and I changed it to you guys. And they asked me not to go behind the counter anymore. But we gotta work on them. I don't know what they're thinking.

[Bob Goff]

They used to listen to us all the time and.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, that's.

[Bob Goff]

Anytime I would go in there, they had us on the air. And I. I will admit I have not been in there of late, but.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, we got to talk to somebody. I feel like every business in Adams and friendship should be legally obligated to be playing Wisconsin 106.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah, usually Becky's has this on, even though she gets hers off the Internet.

[Luke Burbank]

Instead of, you know, two scoops, you know, big scoops over there. Oh, yeah, big scoops. Yeah. We met her when we had lunch the other day. She's called that, by the way, because she gave a very large scoop of ice cream to a child who nicknamed her big scoops.

[Bob Goff]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

That's not like her dancer name or anything. Although she would appreciate that joke. We hung out. We hung out with her and a bunch of folks at the. It's five o' clock somewhere. Like our first or second night here. We were getting a download of all of the local law.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bob Goff]

Five o' clock's a nice place. Yeah, we're just down the street from us.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, we love them. Andy is great over there. If we had to watch the Mariners get absolutely demolished by the Milwaukee brewers and have a fan of the brewers bartending. I'm glad it was Andy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, there's a good guy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, absolutely. Well, I am so personally invested in the. The future success of your radio station because I don't know, you know, how many radio stations kind of have this story or exist as you guys do, is not part of some sort of bigger, more, you know, less personal network of some sort.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah, it's. It's become, you know, like you said, with the I Hearts and the Odysseys and. And everybody in the world that they're treating all of their. If they're not in New York, Chicago, Louisiana. Or something like that, they're treating all the other stations as just like. Like subnets.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Repeaters.

[Bob Goff]

Repeaters of their stuff. I. I have a friend that works for I Heart down in Madison who does her show. She does her show on two different stations. She does a show and then she's also voice tracking, I think at least two or three other stations.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, that's where for folks that don't know, you're just kind of pre recording a whole bunch of stuff that then gets kind of by the computer put into the little breaks. But it's just not the same, you know, kind of vibe of going into a radio station and turning the mic on and.

[Bob Goff]

And if it's done well, it sounds great. And if it's not done well, you can tell.

[Luke Burbank]

Have you had. Since you guys are doing all this live, Bob, have you had the experience of noting that a song was coming to an end but you were still in the station bathroom?

[Bob Goff]

I have not had that happen for a while.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, good. For a while.

[Bob Goff]

But it has happened in the past.

[Luke Burbank]

Do you have stress dreams about a track coming to an end and you can't find your next track you want to put on?

[Bob Goff]

Well, as the gm, my biggest stress stream is usually either I forgot to send the traffic log that has all the commercials in it, or I forgot to send the music log and, you know, all of a sudden I'll wake up at 3am and it'll be dead air.

[Andrew Walsh]

What is your go to song when you know you need to use the restroom for an extended period of time?

[Bob Goff]

My go to song actually is one not a lot of people know. Okay, it's Mama from Genesis.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I do. He screams Mama. It's. He gets really intense on that.

[Bob Goff]

And it's also eight minutes long.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I did not realize it was so long.

[Bob Goff]

That sound. It's just on the Album titled Genesis.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. That was one of the very first cassettes I ever had. I think my. My parents. I don't know what birthday it was. I'm gonna say maybe 10 or 11. They got me a. Do you know the clarinet brand was that Radio Shack brand?

[Bob Goff]

I think it was. I thought. Yeah, I.

[Andrew Walsh]

Radio shack clarinet 122 double. Double deck. And they got me three cassette tapes. One was no Jacket required. One was Genesis. Unfortunately, I can't remember the third one, but it was such a gift of love because my dad could not stand listening to Phil Collins at the time. He would say, it sounds like he's singing in a trash can. It just sounds like he's singing in a trash can. But he loved me so much, he got me that music. Anyway.

[Bob Goff]

Well, just to show you my age, my very first album, and this was back when there was vinyl. I was five years old. It was 1968, and it was Paul Revere and the Raiders.

[Andrew Walsh]

I. Okay, I think I have that on vinyl.

[Bob Goff]

I would. Yeah, I would love to have a copy on vinyl.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, really?

[Bob Goff]

My second one was one I bought with my. For myself with my birthday growing up.

[Luke Burbank]

Where, by the way, where'd you grow up?

[Bob Goff]

Growing up in Minneapolis. I was actually raised in the Twin Cities.

[Luke Burbank]

Excellent.

[Bob Goff]

And my second album, I bought with my own money, with my birthday money, and it was sergeant Pepper.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, nice.

[Luke Burbank]

And a lifelong love affair was born.

[Bob Goff]

He's got the T shirt to prove it. From my animated cartoon T shirt.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's one of the reasons I recognized you. I saw your picture online, but I saw you walking up with your. With your Beatles shirt, and I was the Beatles. And then suddenly, because we were just starting recording as you walked up and Luke was trying to keep it, I was starting to get some sense.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, you had a sense. Well, when you saw that, I had an email from Bob Goff right here.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I didn't see your name. I just saw that Luke was communicating with somebody from the radio station. But I saw your Beatles shirt. I was like, oh, that's Bob. Now, here's. This is. Do you remember the name of the Paul Revere in the Wreck and the Raiders?

[Bob Goff]

Because good thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

If I have.

[Bob Goff]

Good thing was on this. On the album. I know that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, you know what? I had the greatest hits. I had this one here because I was going to say, even though I'm the one who spent this week trying to win on your show, I would happily send you my copy if it had emotional resonance with you. But this is probably not the Record.

[Bob Goff]

No, that's not. But I do have that one actually.

[Andrew Walsh]

You do? Okay. Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

Have a very large vinyl collection.

[Andrew Walsh]

I believe it.

[Luke Burbank]

Do you know that we're. This is our fundraiser week and so people donate, which is kind of shocking and, and very gratifying. And we have thank you gifts that we, that we send folks for different donation levels. And one of our thank you gifts this year is we're sending a greatest hits vinyl album of the podcast.

[Bob Goff]

Oh yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Which is just our greatest. It's our greatest hits of just talking.

[Bob Goff]

Love the Air Supply style cover, by the way.

[Luke Burbank]

Bob for the win, ladies and gentlemen.

[Andrew Walsh]

Absolutely nailed it.

[Luke Burbank]

That's 100% what it's based off of. Good eyes. I think if we can take. Well, there's a couple things I want to take away from this conversation. One of them is if you hear Mama by Phil Collins at about, I don't know, 7:30 in the morning, randomly.

[Bob Goff]

You'Ll know what's going on.

[Luke Burbank]

You'll know Bob had Mexican last night.

[Andrew Walsh]

Or the coffee and the bran muffin is here.

[Luke Burbank]

The second thing is, I feel, Andrew, like you and Bob could have some kind of a show together where you just compare childhood musical influences and things you loved. And then, Andrew, you just scroll through old vinyl and then you see if Bob can name it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, Luke, I am not. Obviously I love you to death and I'm not wishing for anything to befall you, but should it happen, I know what my first phone call is going to be.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, exactly.

[Andrew Walsh]

But. But before we get too lovey dovey here, let's get back down to brass tacks. Yes, the question upon question to ponder. So first of all, do you have any little. Do you know what tomorrow's is going to be yet?

[Bob Goff]

I usually don't know until I get there in the morning.

[Luke Burbank]

It's like jazz.

[Bob Goff]

I have like five or six places that I go to to find questions.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Yeah, what are those? That was my next question. Where do you get. Where do you get questions?

[Luke Burbank]

Do not answer that.

[Bob Goff]

Some of it is. Some of the show prep that I subscribe to, some of it is just. I'll literally go on the Internet and just pop something in the search bar and see if I can come up with a question from it. And usually if you pay attention to like the news and stuff like that, usually the question to ponder has a tendency to follow some of news events occasionally.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, that's interesting. Okay, well, and this is the other thing. And this is a true, true story. As part of this conversation this morning, I Was saying that I'm trying to win this contest again. But I was also truly falling in love with your show. And I told Luke, I'm like, I'm listening on streaming. I could just listen when I get back to Seattle. This could be my new jam. But the problem is, first of all, I'm not an early riser anyway and I will lose two hours when I go to the west coast. So my question for you is how locked in are you to your current time slot?

[Bob Goff]

Pretty locked in.

[Andrew Walsh]

Pretty.

[Luke Burbank]

Wouldn't consider taking over the, like, I don't know, 1pm to 7pm because that'd be perfect for Andrew. If he didn't start till about 10am West coast, that'd be his speed. That's when he's just starting to wake up.

[Bob Goff]

I do have. I have one listener that actually lives in Dublin, Ireland.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh.

[Bob Goff]

And I've known him for. In fact, I consider Paulie my best friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Bob Goff]

And he and his family live in Dublin, Ireland. He's come over to visit us a couple of times. I have yet to go over there. I'm hoping to do it next year. But I send him the question in advance because he has such a following of the listeners of what his answer is that I play his answer first. You'll notice that the last two mornings.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was wondering who that second voice was who came in and kind of. And also gave some sort of a quick news or gave a little tribute to Ozzy Osborne today, I believe. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

Are we getting a call from.

[Andrew Walsh]

We have overseas. Yeah. I was wondering if it was Ireland. I was seriously wondering if this is your buddy.

[Bob Goff]

Looks like Paulie's number.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are you serious?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Let's, let's. Can we. Can we. Hold on.

[Bob Goff]

Let's see if we headphones on. That might be Paul.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is this actually your buddy?

[Luke Burbank]

Hold on. Hello. You are on tbtl. Who is this?

[Justin]

Hi, I'm Justin.

[Luke Burbank]

Is it Justin or Jessica?

[Bob Goff]

Justin.

[Luke Burbank]

Hi, Justin. Where are you calling from?

[Justin]

I'm calling from Spain, but I'm from Milwaukee.

[Luke Burbank]

Now. Are you calling for us or Bob in the morning?

[Justin]

Well, I'm calling for you guys.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, so are you vacationing in Spain or do you live there now?

[Justin]

I live insane. I've lived here for about 10 years now, since I was 18 and I'm going to be 28. But I was born and raised in Milwaukee. And part of the reason I'm calling is because I'm so upset because next week I'm going to Milwaukee for the first time in four years and you guys are In Wisconsin this week. The week before. I'm going to Wisconsin, and so I'm so upset that I can't come.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, to our thing on Friday? Yeah. Well, I'm sorry about the timing, but. So what do you do for work over there?

[Justin]

It's a bit strange. I work in. Originally, I was an au pair. Like, I lived with a family, and I was taking care of kids and teaching them English. And then I started working in language academies, teaching English to kids here. And now I work in a trucking company as, like, a traffic manager. So I basically, I'm kind of the boss of some truck drivers, and I tell them where they have to go to load and unload and stuff like that.

[Luke Burbank]

And what part of Spain do you live in?

[Justin]

I live in the south. I live in a city called Almendralejo, which is kind of near Seville, more or less.

[Luke Burbank]

And how in the heck did you hear about tbtl?

[Justin]

Well, I've actually been listening to TBTL since I was 15.

[Luke Burbank]

Team in Milwaukee.

[Justin]

I used. Yeah. So I went to private school, and I didn't. And I had, like, a scholarship. And part of the scholarship, like, or financial aid, is that, like, in the summer, I had to go and, like, fix books during the. During the summer. And it was boring. Extremely boring. And so I started listening to podcasts, and I started listening to. Wait, wait, don't tell me.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay.

[Justin]

And then I heard about tbtl, and I've been listening to cbtl, everything.

[Luke Burbank]

That is incredible. I mean, I have. We haven't. Have we talked before? I. If we have, I don't remember. This is. This is all news to me, and I can't believe you've been out there. When. When did we talk?

[Justin]

Well, Luke, I met you in. I don't know, about. Probably about, like six or seven years ago, but it was at a. It was at a live wire.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, okay.

[Justin]

In Chicago.

[Andrew Walsh]

I really thought you were going to say a casino.

[Luke Burbank]

That was. That was the live wire where I had fallen while running Lake Michigan and had split my entire face over open hours before the show.

[Justin]

Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow. What a first impression. What a great first impression.

[Justin]

No, not this time.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, do you have any questions for us? Anything you want to talk about? Any questions for Bob in the morning?

[Justin]

No, I just really wanted to say that it's cool. I find it so cool that you guys are in Wisconsin, and it's so funny to hear about you guys talking about Ho Chunk Casino, because when I was a kid, my. My mom and my grandma would go to Ho Chun Casino. And this sounds very degenerate. I promise you that they were like.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, you're talking to the right podcast host.

[Justin]

They went to Ho Chun Casino, and there's a daycare there. And so, like, they would leave me at the. I promise you again, they're good people.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know.

[Justin]

But they would leave me there. And to me, it was hell because, like, it was a bunch of random kids that I didn't know. And, like, the people that worked there were nice, and there were activities and stuff, but, like, obviously, I don't know if we're going to the Wisconsin Dells. I didn't want to be at the daycare of Ho Chunk.

[Luke Burbank]

No, you wanted to be on the water slides.

[Justin]

Exactly.

[Andrew Walsh]

And also those little baby slot machines. Hardly ever, actually.

[Luke Burbank]

Andrew, you're joking. But the casino that's near where I live out in Washington State, they actually have, like, a kid zone now. And the kid zone is just full of, like, you know, games that the video games the kids can play for money, which are all more or less slot machines. It's like a skill claw. It's like it's training their brains, you know, to. Then when they become of age, then just go on the other side of the wall and start losing all of.

[Andrew Walsh]

Their just, you know. But anyway, that's really cool. Wow.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, listen, thank you so much for. For staying with us all these years from all the way over there in Spain. I mean, that really means a lot to us. It's so cool to hear. Yeah.

[Justin]

I also just want to say I have been a donor for the last couple of years.

[Luke Burbank]

Thank you.

[Justin]

I don't know. TBT has been a part of my life for now a pretty long time. So I really. I don't know, I really appreciate TVTL and I encourage other people to donate, and you guys are ever in Wisconsin again. I hope I can be in Wisconsin at the same time.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I might not leave.

[Luke Burbank]

We'll coordinate it. We will make sure to coordinate it with you next time. Okay.

[Bob Goff]

At least she's coming here. She's coming here at the right time. The state fair starts next.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Are you gonna go to the state fair? Yes.

[Justin]

I'm so excited. I haven't been to the state fair in, like, 10 years almost. And I love. The Wisconsin State Fair is amazing. So I'm very excited.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, if I win those tickets tomorrow. Oh, wow.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Now, actually, that gets.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'll send them your way. Okay.

[Justin]

Okay, perfect.

[Luke Burbank]

All right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Have a safe.

[Luke Burbank]

Thank you. Adios.

[Justin]

Thank you, guys.

[Bob Goff]

Bye.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bye.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow. Well, it wasn't it. What's your.

[Bob Goff]

Wasn't Paulie.

[Luke Burbank]

It wasn't Paulie.

[Andrew Walsh]

It wasn't Paulie.

[Bob Goff]

It wasn't Paulie. But that was even better though.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was.

[Bob Goff]

I love that. That was great.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that was really fun. Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

We do these, you know, fundraisers and also we read these messages throughout the year from people who are donating. And it's like we have so many folks who are not only donating, but then they're also using their, their time, their airtime to say nice things to us. It's a pretty sweet deal for us. Yeah, it's really sweet, you know, so. Well, any other questions for your radio hero?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I will just say that, Andrew.

[Luke Burbank]

And also for Bob.

[Bob Goff]

Nice.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, John. No, I just want Bob to know that I am going to continue to enter this contest for the next two days that I guess we're here. But I am serious about this. I am not. Now that you know our name, I am not going to use the same email address. I will create a burner account for this.

[Luke Burbank]

You don't have to.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't even want the perception of impropriety. Okay.

[Bob Goff]

Okay, well, that's fine.

[Andrew Walsh]

Great. But this has been really awesome. Thanks for stopping by.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[John Sklaroff]

Before you go, the listeners who are watching live in the chat want to make sure to us that we ask, have you seen our billboard?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, right.

[John Sklaroff]

And if you have or haven't, can you also, this is just for me, maybe talk about it on your show?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, right.

[Bob Goff]

Well, actually, you know, I have seen the billboard.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did you know what it was?

[Bob Goff]

I had no idea what it was.

[Luke Burbank]

But I thought mission accomplished.

[Bob Goff]

Now that I know what it is, it's brilliant.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is what I wanted.

[Bob Goff]

I think it's absolutely brilliant because I, I go, I go past it almost every day. I don't live here. I actually live over in Camp Douglas, which is about a 35 minute drive away because of the lakes. If it wasn't for back in 1950s when they made Castle Rock, it'd be like a 10 minute drive for work every day. But now it's 35 because I've got this big lake to go around. Wow. But yes, I have seen it. And I, I said, what is that good?

[Andrew Walsh]

We have been talking to people and the only people who seem to have noticed it already knew about it in advance because they knew we were coming to town or knew the backstory. And we really wanted this idea of people passing this and being like, what in the heck fire is that? But we weren't sure if people were just ignoring it, because we haven't. That's our phone number on it.

[Luke Burbank]

That's the number that person just called from Spain.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right. But nobody has called. We haven't gotten any phone calls from people who are just like, what is this all about? I've been watching the line. So just knowing that people are noticing it, it's not just blending into the background, but it is causing at least a second of confusion to driver.

[Luke Burbank]

That makes it. All of the thousands and thousands of dollars we spent on it worth it. If we confused you even for a moment, Bob, I think it was worth it. David.

[John Sklaroff]

If you want to broadcast to your fans tomorrow morning, Bob, maybe we will get something.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know if you know this, but John is the person in charge of the business development.

[Bob Goff]

Okay. All right.

[John Sklaroff]

You can really tell I actually want.

[Luke Burbank]

Do marketing or, you know, if you need us to come on your show tomorrow morning live and promote the billboard. It's also a service we provide.

[Bob Goff]

I would love to have you guys come as a guest tomorrow. Are you serious? Yeah, I'm absolutely serious.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, that would be amazing.

[Bob Goff]

You guys want to come in, like, I don't know, 8, 30, 9 o' clock after the question to ponder.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

That way you could get the answer.

[Andrew Walsh]

That would be amazing.

[Bob Goff]

I invite all three of you to come in.

[Luke Burbank]

We'll have really.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is all happening.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my gosh.

[Bob Goff]

Which kind of makes it pointless that I brought some stuff with me anyway. I brought. I got station swag for all of you.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my goodness. Are you kidding me?

[Bob Goff]

Everybody. Everybody's gonna get.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, thank you.

[Bob Goff]

A campfire mug.

[Luke Burbank]

Amazing.

[Bob Goff]

Okay, so you got that. All right. And you guys look like you're golfers, huh?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, big time. Big time.

[Bob Goff]

I brought each of you a golf towel that you can put on your bag. So one for you.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, exactly.

[Bob Goff]

Pass those down.

[Luke Burbank]

We're definitely sweaty.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So. So we thank you.

[Bob Goff]

Something else that can. You can be used and reused. These are reusable washcloths.

[Luke Burbank]

Incredible.

[Bob Goff]

With our station logo on it.

[Luke Burbank]

Thank you.

[Bob Goff]

So, reusable washcloths, one for each of you. And then last but not least, because you have to have one. Oh, wait, you need. We talked about sunglasses.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my gosh, I forgot.

[Bob Goff]

I brought the sunglasses.

[Andrew Walsh]

And now he's going to give us 106.

[Bob Goff]

Yep. You have. Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

God, we're going to sleep like babies tonight.

[Bob Goff]

I've got one more in here somewhere.

[Luke Burbank]

Who's taking the sexy shower?

[Bob Goff]

Missing one. One can drop down.

[Luke Burbank]

I'll get one tomorrow.

[Bob Goff]

I'll get one. And then, of course, you each need.

[Luke Burbank]

It wouldn't be a.

[Bob Goff]

A pen stolen directly from my desk.

[Luke Burbank]

Amazing. Thanks, guys.

[Bob Goff]

It says right on there.

[Luke Burbank]

Did the general manager know you were doing this?

[Bob Goff]

Yes, he does. And the owner does too. Although he doesn't like my obsession with pens.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I don't know how long you've been doing radio, if you remember the days of the Arbitron Diaries.

[Bob Goff]

Oh, yes.

[Luke Burbank]

But I mean, I worked at many stations where the theory was we're gonna send as many pens and keychains out on the hope that when someone's filling out their Arbitron diary, they're just holding a pen from the radio station. That's right. So they'll fill you in.

[Bob Goff]

That's how that whole thing started. With pens and everything. Yeah, I. I've been in radio since the November of 1979. Going in my 40. It'll be my 46th year.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, congratulations.

[Bob Goff]

Coming up here. Not too far away. I've been with this station for 13 years now.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

Since, since, since 2013.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

So it's. It's been a fun ride. I've worked all over the place. I've worked everywhere from. I started in my Hometown, which is Toma, which is just 40 miles to our west.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

I've worked in lacrosse, Rochester, Minnesota. I've worked in Minneapolis at a couple of stations, worked in MILW and wound up back here. I've even worked in Omaha, Nebraska.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Luke Burbank]

In all different formats. What's the weirdest format you've done or the one that was the least kind of your actual natural interest?

[Bob Goff]

The weirdest format was the one that was running on this station when we took it over in 2013, which it had been running the same music log with the Same pre recorded one hour talk show for almost 18 months, day in and day out. The same music, the same time, the.

[Andrew Walsh]

Same program, the same episode.

[Bob Goff]

The same episode.

[Luke Burbank]

Is that why so many people were committing themselves to the insane asylum?

[Bob Goff]

I have no idea.

[Luke Burbank]

Over in Quincy. That sounds like that would be like a, like a, like a. Something they would do to try to break you down.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thurber esque.

[Bob Goff]

And it sounds like it wasn't through any fault of anybody other than the guy that owned the station. Really didn't have a lot of knowledge about radio or anything like that. And everybody just kind of walked away from them and they just kind of let it run.

[Andrew Walsh]

I see.

[Luke Burbank]

So then that's what that was, the format. And then you guys flipped it to what you're doing.

[Bob Goff]

Yeah. And actually when we first got here, we actually made it a hot AC station.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. And that's adult contemporary.

[Bob Goff]

Right. Which, which would be, you know, like the modern stuff. Yeah. Just not the really rappy modern stuff, you know. And when Marcus started coming in to buy the station stuff like that, I had a really good conversation with him. I said, you know, we're pointing to the wrong market. The average age of the people in our listening area is 55 plus. Why are we playing music for 18 year olds to 55 plus?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Bob Goff]

And I said, let's do this. And he says, go for it. So I did.

[Luke Burbank]

And you said the other thing. That demo loves pondering questions.

[Andrew Walsh]

Pondering questions.

[Luke Burbank]

So let's launch the question to ponder. And Radio Legacy was launched.

[Bob Goff]

Yes, exactly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, and I will tell you this. I am wearing these sunglasses you just.

[Luke Burbank]

Gave me and never looked cooler.

[Andrew Walsh]

I cannot see anything without my regular glasses on, but boy, am I ready for bed.

[Luke Burbank]

Everybody, everybody look at the webcam. Somebody's got to screen cap this. Andrew, with those glasses on is one of the most wonderfully preposterous things I've ever seen.

[Andrew Walsh]

Too cool, is the question. Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Bob, thank you so much.

[Bob Goff]

Thanks for inviting me. And again, you guys can come tomorrow morning, please.

[Luke Burbank]

We'll be there at 6. All right.

[Bob Goff]

If you want to be.

[Luke Burbank]

We'll just be milling about in front of the station.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, for real. What time you said like get there around 8:15 or 8. 8:30.

[Bob Goff]

Right? Around 8:30, if you guys want to show up. Well, you guys can take over the airwaves until 10 o'. Clock.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice. We'll be waving you through the window.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, well, thank you so much.

[Bob Goff]

Well, thanks for inviting me.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is great.

[Bob Goff]

And I, I follow the show and expect to see a donation from heart of Wisconsin media.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thanks so much.

[Luke Burbank]

Right back at you. We'll make sure to, you know, will frequent. We'll frequent every advertisement and if you.

[Bob Goff]

Want to hear them tomorrow morning, go to wisconsin106.com listen, pick, click on Listen live at the top of the page and about 8:30 they'll be on the air.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, thank you, Bob.

[Bob Goff]

Thanks for inviting me.

[Luke Burbank]

That's Bob in the morning from Wisconsin 106 right here in. I love that. I do resets still. No, but I love it. No, you got as if like someone just tuned in. It's like that's not.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, you know, people might have just tuned into the live.

[Luke Burbank]

I guess you're right. If there is a week for me to do it, It's. It's probably this week.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice. Thanks, Bob.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, thanks, Bob. Appreciate you. We'll see you tomorrow. What do you think, Andrew? Should we. Should we sort of leverage off of Bob and the station's generosity? Talking about donating to TBTL to remind all the folks out there that this is the TBTL a thon week. And we have some cool thank you gifts too. I mean, not as cool as like a Wisconsin 106 golf towel, of course, or those bitchin sunglasses you were wearing, but they're all right in our world. The theme this year is banding together. And so all of the thank you gifts have a kind of a musical component to them. We have the melodica, which is a fun little, like, piano that you blow into. If your problem with piano was ever. There's not enough blowing into it. This, like, solves that issue. We've got the tambourine, We've got the harmonicas, which have been confiscated from me because I was too good at it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly, exactly. And I don't know if I'm articulate enough to make the condition. Oh, sorry. What's going on? Hold on. What's going on? Oh, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, Steely Dan.

[Andrew Walsh]

Steely Dan.

[Luke Burbank]

There you go.

[Andrew Walsh]

Steely Dan is on the list of Bob's favorite bands on the website. Don't think that we haven't been checking out on the website. By the way. I don't know if I'm articulate or smart enough to make the connection, but there is a connection between the passion that we have for this very local radio station that is bucking the trend, as you said in your email today, John, as we buck the trend as well, in trying to have some independence and do something that isn't just like cookie cutter corporate crap.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Let's turn this Wednesday into a friend's day, everybody. When did you come up with that back in. I think it was June.

[Andrew Walsh]

Went for your computer there. I thought maybe you had a theme song for. For Friends Day.

[Luke Burbank]

No. Who has the time? But yeah, like Wednesdays during a. We're going to call this a pledge drive. I don't know legally if we can call it. Can we call it that, John? Even though we're not a 501c3 fundraiser.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think we have an issue with that microphone. It's no longer plugged in is probably what the issue is.

[Luke Burbank]

There you go. Wow. Real scorched earth policy from Bob. This is connecting the mic on the way out.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is like the Stern radio war.

[Luke Burbank]

What a flex.

[Andrew Walsh]

He just cut our Signal I was.

[Luke Burbank]

Calling myself, John's got John's mic. He's like, I'm the new John.

[Andrew Walsh]

I call myself the king of all media and friendship. One time I think I, I disconnected.

[John Sklaroff]

While plugging back in. Yeah, I don't know the legality of calling it a pledge. There is something historically about in public radio where it's a pledge because you're not donating in the moment, you're pledging to make the donation.

[Luke Burbank]

Sure.

[John Sklaroff]

Which I'm going to send.

[Luke Burbank]

What's happening here?

[John Sklaroff]

Well, these most folks, pretty much everyone is giving when they go to the west coast.

[Andrew Walsh]

I see.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Well, let's just call it a fundraiser and let's just say that these kinds of week long fundraisers, historically, particularly in the public radio space, but even here, Wednesday is a little bit of a lull because you got the excitement early in the week. You've hopefully got the sort of like the kind of mad dash to the end of the week in the middle can get a little low key and it would be great if we could make this maybe high key or at least medium key here on this Wednesday. So if you have been, and if you've been considering jumping on to tbtl.net and throwing a little donation our way, again, this is 100% listener supported and we couldn't do this without all of you. So thank you very much.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hello and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, our top story involves friendship in the news. Call it Friendo. I've got lots of news. I do have a theme for this segment. Yes, you do, regrettably. Here's what we have to do as far as our friendship in the news segment goes. Andrew and John, we actually have to return, we have to revisit yesterday's friendship in the news topic because yesterday, right as we were getting into this somewhat questionable news story, if you will, about a person who did not want to go pick their friend up at the airport super duper late, which I had suspicion about because it was a Reddit post.

[Andrew Walsh]

Uh huh.

[Luke Burbank]

It wasn't like there was, there was no interview with the actual person, you know, who was complaining about this, et cetera. But as we were just starting to get into the article, Harriet from the local paper wandered in and then we sort of ended up talking to her about a bunch of other stuff. So were you saying, Andrew, that people were reaching out and saying don't leave us hanging on the friendship in the news from yesterday?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I heard from my friend Anna, our friend Anna, longtime listener Anna, who said that other people were saying online like hey, we never got the payoff on that story. Like here's what I remember Luke. And then you can pick it up where? Wherever I get it wrong or I run out of steam here. But there was a friend who usually picks up her friend slash neighbor at the airport, but the neighbor is often coming in on late flights because she's a night owl. Do I have that right?

[Luke Burbank]

That was the setup in the Reddit post, which already seemed a little like, you know, suspicious to me. I'm also trying to get back to.

[Andrew Walsh]

The article, which is why I'm trying to buy you some time here. And so here we go.

[Luke Burbank]

I've got it people dot com.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice. There you go. Where you go for all of your.

[Luke Burbank]

Airport related hard hitting airport pickup news.

[Andrew Walsh]

And so this time she was supposed to pick up her friend or they were supposed to pick up their friend. I don't know if we know genders.

[Luke Burbank]

Here and I believe they're both women.

[Andrew Walsh]

But anyway. And she said, no, I'm not gonna pick you up, right? She said, it's too late, you've changed your flight, it's inconvenient for me and I'm not gonna pick you up.

[Luke Burbank]

Basically, the person who was, I don't want to say complaining like I'm blaming the victim, but the person who posted this on Reddit, who's allegedly the airport picker upper right, who picks up her neighbor friend, said she does not like the person doing the picking up, doesn't like driving late at night, doesn't like being near the airport past 10pm and so has already told her friend that. And her friend then schedules the flight to land at 9:50pm which means after picking up her many bags, which is also mentioned in the article, it's going to be more like 11pm which if you know how clocks work and I barely do, is one hour after the time that this person has already said, I don't want to be out driving around after 10pm, it would be 11pm so she says, wanting to stay informed, this person, the Redditor, if you will, asked her friend to text when the flight took off. That's when the evening began to unravel. Quote, she texts me that the flight is delayed and her flight sits on the ground for at least two hours. Eventually the flight is canceled due to weather and the friend, the traveler that is, was left to rebook her travel plans in the middle of the night. Finally, around 1:00am Philly time, she tells the person who's going to pick her up that the flight is canceled. There's a long line to reschedule flights and there is an app that she can use. The woman, then this is the person who didn't want to do the pickup. Sets a clear boundary about late night pickups. I tell her that I don't want to be driving to the airport after 10 to pick her up. Despite this, her friend. This is where this thing really starts to get kind of confusing with the timeline. Despite this, her friend booked a flight with a 9:20am p.m. departure and an 11:50pm arrival.

[Andrew Walsh]

11:50, 11:50. Almost tomorrow.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. And then the friend says, I remind her that I don't want to be driving around after 10pm and that it's going to take an extra hour to get a baggage claim. Now we're looking at like midnight. The situation became more frustrating when the friend responded that her bags have already been sent ahead, so she might be out by 12:30. In other words, the friend is saying, which I don't even. That's not even a service. So the traveler is trying to say to the pickup person, I know normally it takes me an hour to get my bags, but in this case, my bags have been sent ahead. What?

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I see. What by courier?

[Luke Burbank]

What is this, Casablanca? What do you have your letters of transit?

[Andrew Walsh]

She's got a riff ridge, the letters of transit.

[Luke Burbank]

And it's just like. I don't. That's. Listen, I spend a lot of time in airports with luggage. I've never heard of your luggage being sent ahead.

[Andrew Walsh]

She put her trunks on a steamer.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. She put it on the Lusitania. Anyway, things. Let's see, then the flight ends up not leaving until like even later. And is.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can I interrupt?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yes. Stock photography.

[Andrew Walsh]

You weren't even talking. I don't think about this story today. You're just talking about, generally speaking, the types of. Of quote unquote news sites that are just peppered with like stock photos. This was us privately talking, right?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I think I might have mentioned on TBTL of maybe a few weeks ago or at some point, I was. I think I was talking about identifying a quote unquote news article that has probably not really been written by a real reporter with real reporting and that you can often tell because of the photographs.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And so I'm looking at Luke's screen here and they're using this stock photo of. It's like, it looks like a kind of a youngish woman or a woman.

[Luke Burbank]

It looks like Lena Dunham from Girls.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. And she's clearly a traveler because she's just wearing a T shirt, but she's like a. Looks like kind of a college age traveler or something because she's wearing like a knapsack and then like a fanny pack kind of thing across the front.

[Luke Burbank]

They call you a cross bag.

[Andrew Walsh]

Cross bag. But she's looking down on her phone with one hand and kind of frowning another hand is like, what is going on?

[Luke Burbank]

And it is very unconvincing to me that this was the person who wrote the Reddit post.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel like it's unlikely. So, anyway, the person says, I'm not gonna pick you up now. You're gonna get in at 3am and she says, you should use an Uber.

[John Sklaroff]

Yeah, agreed.

[Luke Burbank]

And then, I mean, obviously it's the most reasonable because.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did you say this is taking place actually in Philly or Pittsburgh or something?

[John Sklaroff]

You don't have to wake the taxi driver up to 11.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, exactly. Unless she's flying literally into friendship. Adams. Like, you can take an Uber.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. The friend's rescheduled flight left at 1pm Philly time and landed in Vegas around 3am at that point, the woman tells her friend to take an Uber, a decision that leads to this is what I'm saying.

[John Sklaroff]

1Pm Philly is where they're departing. 1am 1am and they're, oh, Vegas, 3am Anyway, it's okay.

[Luke Burbank]

We don't know if this woman's in Philly or Vegas. I honestly.

[Andrew Walsh]

What's the reaction? So now they're not friends anymore, and if that's the case, what's the loss there?

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. The. The friend says, I can't take Uber because I need a credit card to set up the account. And the traveler said they didn't bring a credit card with them. And then the writer of the Reddit post says, who does that? Which is a great question. Who does that? And why would you be friends with them? Like, I think that the obvious answer to this is, you do not need to pick this person up at the airport at 3am and honestly, annoying them to the point of them not really being your friend anymore sounds like it would be a big win for whoever posted this on Reddit.

[Andrew Walsh]

This person is a hot mess, Luke.

[Luke Burbank]

But this is the thing. I feel like this entire letter is completely faked. I do not see the person in the age demo who is writing this letter also being someone who turns to Reddit for their advice. I could see them turning to Dear Abby.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that's true.

[Luke Burbank]

I could see them asking Amy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

I could even see them reaching out to Marilyn Vos Savant, the world's smartest woman in Parade magazine. But I don't see them going on Reddit. This person feels generationally like they're probably in my mom's generation. And in fact, gotta be careful because my mom listens to the show. My mom for a while and mom, listen, if you are hearing this, please don't be mad at me. I'm just, just reporting the facts. My mom is a person who is quite cost conscious with her flights, and I don't think it happens anymore. But there was a period of time where my mom would often fly back east, and I remember there was one time where she was flying back east and I don't know if it was because her flight got canceled or because they offered to take a bump. You know, it was like, hey, if you want, you know, she was in like Detroit or something, and the airline said, if anybody wants to wait till another flight, we'll give you $200 credits or something. My mom is very, very receptive to that somehow. My mom was supposed to be flying to Philly, but I think ended up getting routed into Baltimore and then wanted her friend who was going to pick her up in Philly to just come grab her in the other town in Baltimore. I don't want, don't quote me on that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

But it was another place that was not the original airport. And I believe it did lead to a certain amount of tension because of the driving and the getting the person and all that. All this is to say I feel like my mother would not. If she had questions about this or if she wanted to ask, what is this Reddit? Am I the blank? Am I the a hole? If my mother was to be asking that question, she would not be turning to Reddit for it.

[Andrew Walsh]

No. Maybe. Maybe Facebook.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

At this day and age, maybe Facebook. Yeah. Older generations are still using Facebook or using or like pretty comfortable with that level of things Reddit doesn't. I'm, again, I'm not trying to be ageist here, but there are demographics for these things. That does not seem like the demo.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, exactly. So, but back to the question, you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Know, are you emailing back and forth with Bob right now?

[Luke Burbank]

No, I'm. We're still, we're still on email number one.

[Andrew Walsh]

I just happened to look over and it looked like maybe your email and it's just like, I don't know, I kind of think of Bob as my, my friend.

[Luke Burbank]

I think of myself as the. I, I consider myself the matchmaker and all of this. I am the conduit.

[Andrew Walsh]

We will toast you at the friend wedding. Certainly.

[Luke Burbank]

Thank you. That's all I ask. But, but to the question of airport pickups, and we don't have to talk radio this. Like, we don't have to like, you know, flip a coin. And then you pick the argument of you got to pick up your friends at the airport and I pick the never pick up your friends argument. And John just stands over there weeping as, as the business boys tear each other apart. No, but like, what is your, what is your kind of general with Genevieve, like, airport pickup policy? How does that all work out for you guys in terms of like, if one of you is traveling and the other one is home, is it an automatic that you'll go pick each other up?

[Andrew Walsh]

It's not an automatic, but it's always a consideration. So, like, for example, I, well, this is kind of funny. I don't think we talked about this on the podcast yet, but, you know, my flight out of Seattle to get here was not incredibly early. It was an 8am flight, actually. 8:10.

[Luke Burbank]

What time did you get up for that one?

[Andrew Walsh]

But because I am so just, I'm basically, you know, like we said yesterday, a belt and suspenders guy anyway. And I was so concerned about anything getting in the way of me and the equipment landing here where we needed it to be in Wisconsin. I was like, well, I'll definitely make sure that I'm there two hours early. So my plan is to get to the airport at. At 6am and for some reason that led me to think I had to get up at 4am which was a misnomer, for lack of a better word, I did not have to get up that early. But once I was up at 4am on this big nervous day, I was certainly not going back to bed. So I was pretty wiped by the time I got here.

[Luke Burbank]

I think Andrew's Big Nervous Day could be a good children's book. Helping Them Helping Kids Work Through Anxiety.

[Andrew Walsh]

Possibly the show title today. But yeah, I don't think that most people get up at 4am to catch any 8:10am flight. But here we are. But knowing that I want to get to the airport early, Genevieve still for a moment offered to drive me when we were talking about our plans. But then she realized she was also traveling that day somewhere else, so she couldn't give me a ride. But we always, we always talk about it and I think she thinks she might pick me up when I arrive later. And we always have the conversation. You know, I dropped her off at the airport a couple of days ago, but I wasn't able to pick her up or. Or vice versa or something.

[Luke Burbank]

Kind of schedule dependent.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's just always like. Yeah, I mean, we're always open to it, but in the day and age of Uber and public transportation, you know, we have a train that goes directly to the station. Like, we just.

[Bob Goff]

It's.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's not. It's not like. Of course, like, when I go to visit my parents, I was offered hundreds of times, like, I can just take an Uber from the airport. My folks think, like, what, did we disown you?

[Luke Burbank]

Right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, the idea of not picking me up, their son at the airport is like. It would be like the root, like, literally unthinkable to them.

[Luke Burbank]

I do think that's pretty generational. What's. What's the policy with you and Jess?

[John Sklaroff]

Yeah, well, like, you guys found out when you flew into MSP and then drove to my house to pick me up to.

[Luke Burbank]

Is that in Bloomington? Where's msp?

[John Sklaroff]

Minnesota. Not Minneapolis. You guys were never in Minneapolis.

[Luke Burbank]

John corrected me, actually quite harshly the other day about the fact that I kept saying we were landing in Minneapolis because we're technically landing in Bloomington. I put that on the people who named the airport because it's Minneapolis St. Paul Airport. That's very misleading.

[John Sklaroff]

But in spite of me wearing my Yankees jersey today, being from New York, I've really bought hard into the St. Paul Minneapolis rivalry. And so I want to be very clear. You were.

[Luke Burbank]

I want to mention you're on the.

[Andrew Walsh]

St. Paul side of things. I want to.

[Luke Burbank]

I want to mention you dodged such a bullet with Bob in the morning, showing up because I had on the show sheet.

[John Sklaroff]

I saw the Yankee.

[Luke Burbank]

I said, bold move wearing that Yankees jersey. Listen, but that. We didn't even have time.

[John Sklaroff]

There was a lot of that in the chat, and people were questioning me some, but there was a lot of people coming to my defense, and I will not apologize for it.

[Andrew Walsh]

I want a list of every listener who came to your defense.

[John Sklaroff]

I will look at the chat. Andrew. They're there. I rooted for the Mariners last night.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, you did.

[John Sklaroff]

To you this morning. The Mariners have.

[Luke Burbank]

You've been subjected to a lot of marinerism this week. Week. It's fair. You can wear your jersey.

[John Sklaroff]

I'm also. I've become endeared to them as a. As working with you guys and getting to know the 10. So as long as they're not playing the Yankees, I'll root for them.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

So you and Jess in the airport.

[John Sklaroff]

So yeah. So we're 12 minutes from the airport.

[Andrew Walsh]

I see.

[John Sklaroff]

So we also to try to save some money here and there will typically be flying out early, flying in, you know, in late kind of thing. But it's never been an issue for us because it's like we're so close.

[Luke Burbank]

My thing is because I live, you know, kind of up where I do and my girlfriend lives in Portland. So it doesn't, it doesn't tend to be the case that one of us is driving to the airport. But the few times that it has happened through whatever means it is so GD heartwarming. Like it. First of all, it reminds me of being a kid because like you're talking about your parents generation. Andrew. When I was a kid, if anyone ever like, first of all, there was not ride share and a taxi cab would have been considered prohibitively expensive if anyone was ever coming to town that we knew or if, if somebody was flying out on the rare occasion that happened, it was always somebody picking you up or dropping you off, like. And so it's actually very kind of nostalgic for me. And also it's kind of, I don't know, it's a sweet bonding time. I mean, certainly even the dropping off is kind of like, well, travel safe. And you know, Rick Steves has me really in my head about travel safe. He was on Livewire. We did Livewire in Seattle a few months ago. And he was talking about how he likes saying bon voyage. Like he's of, you know, obviously he's the travel guy. His whole thing is about like the adventure of travel. And we used to be adventurous and we used to travel. We used to say bon voyage to people or have a good trip. And now we say travel safe. And that he thinks that that sort of indicates how we think about the world now.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, can I interrupt for one second, please? You a question was did I just see a teenager.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

With the fish guy on a bicycle with a fishing pole hanging off the back of it?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. You saw an.

[Andrew Walsh]

Are we in a Norman Rockwell? Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

You saw an animated. You saw a Norman Rockwell painting come to life. And honestly, it's terrifying because they're not supposed to come to life. They're supposed to be a one dimensional flat painting. And it just became inhuman form.

[Andrew Walsh]

Finally, the magic eyes are working for me after all this time.

[Luke Burbank]

A little too well.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know if I can go back to broadcasting from my basement.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, you know, I have to say this is a particularly fun and active thing that we're looking out On. But. But, Andrew, this is, of course, my whole obsession with anytime we're doing the show, if I'm in a hotel room, I'm dragging the little desk over to the window. Even if I'm looking at an air conditioner in a parking lot or like at the Madrona Hill studio, I can only operate along these lines. Like, my brain is bad enough at generating thoughts as it is. If I'm just looking at a wall, it just shuts down. Do you feel invigorated by this process? Do you feel enervated? I'm trying to use the word enervated more, but I don't know if it means more energy or less.

[John Sklaroff]

I've never heard that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I've heard the word before, but I've never been bold enough to use it. I don't think I know what it means.

[Luke Burbank]

I think enervating means it drains your energy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let's see here.

[Luke Burbank]

Let's see. Yeah, it's the opposite of what I was trying. Enervated.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, this doesn't feel.

[Luke Burbank]

You do feel reverse enervated, as people say.

[Andrew Walsh]

The answer, sadly, is not enervated. Yeah, no, this is great. I mean, it really is idyllic. I was telling you that again, we had all of the excitement that you hear on the air from me or the passion for this particular week of programming is very real, as you know, Luke, because I won't stop talking about it. We just had breakfast at this diner. I'm just like, this has just worked out. I'm not trying to wrap up the show. My apologies for getting us off topic, but this is just so incredible to sit here on Main street just like Bob in the morning, down the street away and just like, oh, you mean.

[Luke Burbank]

The show we're going to be on tomorrow morning? How are you feeling about that, by the way?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's a. That is true. I don't know that I fully processed that, but obviously very excited, I think.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Like, I haven't been in a real radio studio in a while.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I know. And actually, now that you say that, am I a little bit nervous? I guess so. I guess what will happen is we will get to try to answer the question, to ponder it live on the air. Right. And then we can argue about it. It.

[Luke Burbank]

I guess we also will have to answer the question that we haven't been able to answer for about 17 years, which is, what is TBTL? And maybe more importantly, why is TBT? Like, we better start practicing that answer. Right. Flipping. Now.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let's get A website called why the hell is tbtl?

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, because, like, there's nothing that we're worse at than A, promoting the show.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And B, explaining the show. And we'll be trying to do it on Central Wisconsin's Music Leader, Wisconsin 106 tomorrow. Well, anyway, back to the. The airport pickup question. I. You know, I have to say, I mentioned this the other day about what they've done at pdx, which is the airport that I use the most, which is that they have put these risers in. They're really beautiful. They're like some kind of local blonde wood that, like, they're basically these benches. But, you know, when I say risers, I mean kind of like they.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bleachers.

[Luke Burbank]

Bleachers. But I don't want people to think of, like, a high school bleacher that's, like, uncomfortable to sit on. They're very welcoming and, like, it's just amazing. They're full of people and families and all hours of the day and night. Never for me, when I emerge through that security thing. But just, like, I love that. I feel. I feel like there's something really sweet to that whole thing, which makes me think maybe I need to try to actually start doing that more, whether it's picking up the people I love when they get to the airport. Because I'm the kind of guy who would, like, just call an Uber for him.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, somebody would say, hey, Luke, could you pick me up at the airport? You'd be like, well, I'll just send.

[Bob Goff]

A car for you.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I'll be like, that doesn't really send my driver. Yeah, right. It doesn't really work for me, but I could schedule you an Uber or a lift or something, but it doesn't have that personal touch. All right, folks, what do you think here? We've been.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, you know what? I might have one call.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, let's do a call before this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Caller has been on hold for 22 minutes.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel like we can't hang up. All right, fair enough.

[John Sklaroff]

To hear my first caller this weekend.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, you always remember your first.

[John Sklaroff]

I even missed it when Bob was here.

[Andrew Walsh]

I couldn't listen.

[Luke Burbank]

Sorry, John, you do get to wear your Yankees jersey.

[John Sklaroff]

I. I'm happy, Bob.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, here we go. Hello, you are on TBT 16. Who's this?

[Jake]

Hello, friendos. It's Jake in Chicago.

[Luke Burbank]

Jake, the perfect daddy.

[Jake]

Oh, thank you for actually saying it.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, you know, I'm getting soft in my old age. I forgot that. I forgot. I hate that nickname.

[Andrew Walsh]

We beat him down.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, Right. How are you, buddy?

[Jake]

17 years or something.

[Bob Goff]

Good.

[Jake]

I mean, you know, as good as you can be. I was not to bring it down. I was laid off a couple months ago.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm sorry.

[Jake]

Hunting for jobs constantly. Yeah, not really what I intended to talk about.

[Luke Burbank]

What kinds of jobs are you looking for?

[Jake]

Well, right now I am putting together an email for a video producer role here in Chicago that claims to be hybrid. Here's something I found on LinkedIn.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay.

[Jake]

A lot of these people don't know how to use LinkedIn.

[Luke Burbank]

The people that are. That are putting the ads up. The job ads.

[Jake]

Yeah, yeah, exactly. I saw one. I've seen several that say, oh, remote position, executive assistant, administrative, you know, that kind of role. It's like, oh, yeah, great, no problem. So this is a remote job. You must be based in Vegas.

[Luke Burbank]

What?

[Jake]

That's not what remote means.

[Luke Burbank]

They mean emotionally remote.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

You work in Vegas, but you are kind of vacant. Yeah. Right. So you're. You're finding it annoying to. That these jobs are listed as. Because you, you would work remotely from Chicago just about anywhere. But a lot of the jobs actually want you to physically pick up and move. And now you're married, you've got a whole life. I mean, we can't be having you just gallivant all over the country.

[Jake]

Not like that anymore, you know.

[Luke Burbank]

How is married life, by the way?

[Bob Goff]

Good.

[Jake]

We actually just went on our. We just got back from our honeymoon.

[Luke Burbank]

Congratulations. Yeah, we.

[Jake]

We have decided to turn our anniversary into a excuse to go on a yearly trip. So we went to Denver and Colorado, the general area, for about a week. A couple months ago, maybe a month ago.

[Luke Burbank]

Nice. Good. Congratulations again on that. I'm glad that part of your life is working out. Sounds like everything else is falling apart.

[Jake]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Don't ruin, don't ruin that.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, definitely prioritize the. Prioritize the marriage.

[Andrew Walsh]

Aren't you glad you called?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, wow. Yeah, whatever. What a message of hope we're bringing. What did you think about that whole. Wait, Jake, what did you think about that whole Bob in the morning segment?

[Jake]

I was so happy with that. I was really excited. I love. I think everybody has the same opinion of, like, wanting to. Maybe it's just me because of what I went to school for, but being in a radio station and looking out over like, the main square, whatever, Main street, that's just. That's the ideal.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right?

[Luke Burbank]

The dream.

[Jake]

Isn't that. That just sounds perfect.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bob Goff]

It's.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm like so psyched that we have you know, Andrew, can I just say.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

We would not have. I think it is. I think it's actually safe to say Bob in the Morning would have never been here. We would not be going on the Bob in the Morning show tomorrow. We would not have these golf towels or these campfire mugs. If you. Sunglasses or these sunglasses.

[Jake]

I love those sunglasses.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I love those sunglasses. I'll send you some. Jake. I'll send you mine. Okay. For real.

[Andrew Walsh]

I need to put prescription lenses in mine.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow. Talk about new wine and old wine skins. Putting prescription lenses in your 18 cent radio station promotional sunglasses. I love it. No, none of. Andrew, do you realize I'm being totally serious? None of this would have happened if. When we.

[Bob Goff]

If.

[Luke Burbank]

When we stepped out of the Sugar Shack after being served by Becca Big Scoops again, her nickname. Her choice.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because of Ice.

[Luke Burbank]

Her Scoops. Her choice.

[John Sklaroff]

A child's choice.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. If. If you hadn't said, hey, can we just like kind of walk a little bit to walk this off? Because if we would have just cut over to our rental vehicle, we would have just driven off and whatever. But. Because we went up to the light and then went over and said, oh, this is a radio station. Got an antenna coming out and then.

[Andrew Walsh]

Looked at it, like, talk about kismet.

[Luke Burbank]

Kismet.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know. And again. Well, and again, I think we've said this on the air and I. If not, I hope it's okay to say, but like, so much about this trip has been kismet because also, I think originally we were planning on maybe broadcasting from the Airbnb and friendship.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

But when we found out there was no Internet, we had this. We're like, oh, well, we'll find a place in town. And so here we are in this amazing historical society building and looking out on Main street and like, the show, the week would have been so different. It would still be good. We'd still be three guys living life.

[Luke Burbank]

For you to support their job.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

And.

[Andrew Walsh]

And we would have obviously made the most of it, but this has been, like, magical. And it's all because there was bad Internet where we rented.

[Luke Burbank]

You know, that's. Yeah, that's like, not to get too corny or whatever, but I think that is a TBTL lesson that I'm starting to finally learn after all these years, which is most of the time when we encounter something that seems like it's kind of a big setback for whatever our plan was, whatever ends up working out is usually vastly better, you know, and that's, I think, you know, I don't want to Pollyanna it up. And we're living in a. In a moment of time that's pretty. Pretty terrifying for everybody, mostly Jake. But if, like, we can kind of think about that, that sometimes when we bump up against something that seems like a pretty big obstacle, it is very possible that the ultimate outcome is going to be a big improvement.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Over whatever that thing was that gives me a little bit of hope at times and make me. Makes me feel a little bit less despair when. When something happens that is not the thing I was hoping was going to happen.

[John Sklaroff]

Yeah. Not to get like a thon. Pitchy and stuff, but.

[Luke Burbank]

No, dude, honestly, if you can.

[John Sklaroff]

Well, I was.

[Luke Burbank]

You can turn this into some donations.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Monetized. My tender moment.

[Luke Burbank]

No, I love it. I love that.

[John Sklaroff]

In all seriousness, like, thank you for being a 10. You know, like the thing, like one of the things that's kept my focus on not all the terrible stuff is this, this community, the friends, the people.

[Luke Burbank]

True story.

[John Sklaroff]

You know, it's like. Like we're watching a live. We have a live stream and watching this chat. People just saying the nicest things about you guys and the experience and being there here with. With each other.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[John Sklaroff]

You know, flipping out of our awesome OC Bob today and Harriet yesterday.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[John Sklaroff]

So it's just like such a cool thing to help kind of like keep at bay the sand.

[Luke Burbank]

Terrible things. Yeah. Well, hey, Jake, why don't we. Because we do have a lot of people that are going to hear this both on the stream and then eventually when it's out in the sort of pod world. What. What sort of work are you looking for? Let's put it out here. Let's do a little. Let's do a little on air, a little on air promotion for you in case one of the tens at the place that they work is looking for somebody or maybe they've got a business or whatever. What do you. What kind of stuff are you looking for?

[Jake]

Sure. I've been doing a lot of like, office managerial roles in the last few years, which I really like. So if you need somebody to run your office. So while you do other things, I'm your guy.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay.

[Jake]

Other than that, I've always been a fan of like, video and audio production.

[Luke Burbank]

You had your own podcast production side of things.

[Jake]

I do. Thank you for mentioning it. It's called did you watch Survivor last night or.

[Luke Burbank]

That's a good.

[Jake]

The compassionate Haters podcast.

[Luke Burbank]

Love it.

[Jake]

Haters Survivor podcast, I think we call it on YouTube now. Trying to Expand that audience.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice, nice.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, how do. How do people get a hold of you if they. If they want to find you and tell you about an awesome remote job? That's. It doesn't involve moving to Vegas.

[Jake]

I do love Vegas. I love losing wages.

[Luke Burbank]

First you have to make some wages.

[Jake]

Yeah, exactly. Jake's J, A K e dot S C H E I D E L gmail dot com. If you're AI, please don't email me. I don't want any robots clogging my email up. I've already got enough newsletters.

[Luke Burbank]

See, that's the kind of comedy you could have at your place of business if you hire Jake Scheidel, the perfect dad.

[Andrew Walsh]

Imagine Jake standing, like, sitting next to the water cooler saying, what's the deal with water coolers? Saying, what's the deal with water coolers? That's great. Can I ask one question of Jake before we wrap things up today, Jake, about how many paper cuts would you say you get a year?

[Jake]

I was thinking about that. I don't remember the last time I've had a paper cut, but it's gotta be maybe only one or two in the last 10 years.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. And the thing is, you tend to remember them because they're so kind of. They're so kind of upsetting when they.

[Andrew Walsh]

Happen because, remember, I got one, but I got one sometime in the last year and I talked about it on the show because I said it's like, I don't really believe in God or the idea of original sin.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm gonna keep that under your hat.

[Andrew Walsh]

Except for when I get a paper cut. And somehow a paper cut seems like a residual effect of original sin, and somehow it just seems so. Like, how did picking up a piece of paper do that? Hurt me? Yeah, it just seems so unfair.

[Luke Burbank]

I was troubled by just how bad my math is, because think about this. Like, if you said, like, 400 paper cuts in a lifetime and somebody who lives to 80, I would be. Well, that means they have 100 paper cuts a year. Right? Like, because, like, honestly, 50. I mean, what would be 50 a year?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, it would be five a year. If you live to 80.

[Luke Burbank]

Five sounds. It actually sounds plausible. Five in a year.

[John Sklaroff]

Can I just give you guys a warning? We shouldn't be trashing that segment too much. Right. Having arguments with it too much. Because Bob has literally entered the chat.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my goodness.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think I've made my feelings known.

[Luke Burbank]

No, we're. Honestly, we don't keep any secrets from Bob in the Morning.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bob in the Morning is on the YouTube chat.

[Luke Burbank]

He knows where we stand.

[Andrew Walsh]

Love this.

[Luke Burbank]

He knows that we've got. We need to ask some hard questions Tomorrow morning on Wisconsin 106 about the. Is it Price Waterhousecooper who's in charge of this thing?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right. There better be somebody with a briefcase handcuffed to their wrist with the answer.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, Jake, good luck with everything, brother. And we really appreciate you being part of the show for all these years, man.

[Jake]

Yeah, thank you. I appreciate it.

[Luke Burbank]

There goes Jake, the perfect daddy. Long, long, long time. TBTL friend and participant. Any final thoughts here, folks, before we wind this up? Oh, here's a final important thought. We're gonna be on Zoom tonight.

[John Sklaroff]

Oh, yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, right. Of course.

[Luke Burbank]

We keep forgetting about that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know.

[Luke Burbank]

TBTL. 10's got music. Stuff.

[Andrew Walsh]

Stuff. So the idea is it's kind of like a show and tell on Zoom. Luke, John, and I will be here in the Historical Society, same setup, and you guys will be. I think you say you do have to register in advance. Go to tv.net if you haven't registered. Right now, we got over 100 people registered for this week. 130 something people. 130 people. Just us and 130 of your closest friends on Zoom tonight. And if you want to, it's like a show and tell for anything you have that's music related. Now, I want to be clear here. It's not a recital. We're not looking for people to do performances. We simply don't have time for that. But if you have a favorite concert T shirt that brings back some great memories for you, or a ticket stub or a vinyl record or a cassette, whatever. Is any kind of little thing that is music related that you can tell us a story about if you want to do that. That's the theme tonight. Or you might just want to be somebody who joins the Zoom and just kind of hangs out and hear other people's stories, you don't have to participate. Frankly, we don't have time for 130 stories. So that is the plan. Go to tbtl.net if you want to.

[John Sklaroff]

Join us and make your annual donation to tbtl.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, wait.

[John Sklaroff]

Oh, sorry. Did I jump the gun?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, I just wanted to say all of this is assuming the Internet works.

[Bob Goff]

That's right.

[Andrew Walsh]

We are a little bit nervous about the situation. We have the technology set up now, but we have not tried Zooming in here. And you guys have all been in work meetings before where you have a bad. You know, somebody's on a bad Internet connection and you can't hear what they're saying during the Zoom call, we might be that person.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

And so we. I'm not trying to disincent level setting. I am level setting. We are going to do our best to have this tonight, but we have been running into some Internet issues that we weren't quite prepared for. We've been getting around them, but tonight, let's just say we are hoping for the best, but preparing for everybody just to watch the brewers game.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, because.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, wait, actually, that's a day game today.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Because just if you were somebody who logged on during last year's thon, which was at the Madrona Hill studio, or even in previous years when we would do the zoom, and we were. The technology was getting pretty tricky. Like, we had, you know, each of us had our own dedicated camera and we were able to jump around and that stuff like that is much like House of Pain. That is not going to be probably how this zoom works, just for technical reasons. So just go into this, please, knowing that this is going to be a little bit more of a lo fi experience. It's still going to be super fun, but we're just going to be trying to basically stress the Internet out as little as possible here so that we can actually talk to all of you.

[John Sklaroff]

So, again, just a reminder, you do have to sign up and register. That way you get the link sent to you. We're hoping that's the best. Then when you'[e-mail], it's right at the top of the page, right next to the donate button.

[Luke Burbank]

There you go. Now, that's how you do that Texas Two step.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is that.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Sign up for the Zoom Hangout and kick a little cash TBTL's way, and you're off to an amazing Wednesday. All right. Hey, thank you, everybody, for real, for listening to all this and watching it and being part of TBTL getting us here. 4516 episodes later we are going to be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for you from right here at at the Adams County Historical Society. So please do join us for that. In the meantime, have a great Wednesday. Take care of yourselves, stay safe, and please remember, no mountain too tall.

[Andrew Walsh]

And good luck to all.

[Bob Goff]

Did we just become best friends?

[Andrew Walsh]

Power out.