#4624 You Stieged The Landing!

Summary

TBTL #4624 “You Stieged The Landing!”

Date: December 22, 2025
Hosts: Luke Burbank & Andrew Walsh

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Episode Overview

In this Monday edition of TBTL, Luke and Andrew meander through their classic blend of candy discourse, petty social media squabbles, and comedic nostalgia, all while daringly promising to tackle a long-awaited “top five” list, which—predictably—gets waylaid by delightful digressions. From examining free candy in podcasting gear shipments, to the saga of duplicated viral jokes, to a crowdsourced list of movies that are (allegedly) better than the books, the episode epitomizes TBTL’s uniquely unhurried and affectionate banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Candy, Adulthood, and Freebies (00:00–10:00)

• Andrew narrates his new candy stash:
  Andrew opens with a minute-long riff on drumming patterns before revealing he's eating from a bowl of free candy received from Sweetwater (a company known for including candy with orders).
• Luke’s Sweetwater connection:
  Luke mentions Sweetwater is both a music equipment supplier and also, humorously, the name of his old neighbor’s band—a band that he once mocked on-air.
• Detailed rundown of candies:
  The duo review various classic candies (peppermints, Dad’s Root Beer barrels, Laffy Taffy, Double Bubble, Bit-O-Honey), with deep nostalgia and judgment:
  • Bit-O-Honey’s reputation:
    Andrew: “It seemed so much from my youth, like a grandpa kind of thing.” (07:33)
    Luke: “Miss me with any candy that’s honey flavored?” (08:20)
• Generational candy preferences:
  Conversation drifts to why certain candies (like Bit-O-Honey) feel outdated, compared to chocolates and “newer” treats.

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Social Media “Viral Theft” and SeaTac’s Legendary Sign (10:00–21:00)

• Luke recounts his Buc-ee’s post and the toothless creativity of giving a baby born in a Buc-ee’s the nickname “Little Bucky”:
  “That nickname is not very creative at all... Maybe their strong suit isn’t creative nicknaming of the baby.” (11:12)

• Andrew discovers Luke stole his SeaTac visual gag:
  Both hosts, months apart, posted the same photo of a “Do Not Lean On Barrier” sign at the Seattle airport, making near-identical jokes about how cool the icon looks.

  • Andrew:
    “You literally made the same joke I did... you try—you saw me go viral and you got jealous...” (15:08)

  • Luke (laughing):
    “I was karmically rewarded with a total failure because it only has 22 likes. The hive mind realized... they decided they were not going to reward me.” (15:31)

• Listener engagement:
  Andrew notes his version got retweeted by Emily Nussbaum and went quasi-viral, while Luke bemoans getting only one comment—albeit a prized emoji from longtime listener Cinder.

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Airport Automation & Employee Moments (17:53–20:43)

• Luke’s story about bag drop automation:
  Luke vents about the creeping self-service at the Alaska Airlines bag drop, joking about being “trained” for robot replacement. He recounts a fist-bump moment with employee Armando:
  • Luke:
    “I go, we need more Armandos and less robots. And he goes, hell yeah, man. And we fist bumped.” (20:41)

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Top Five Segment: “Movies That Are Better Than the Book” (30:01–44:43)

Submitted by Listener Aaron in Olympia, via her five-year-old

List:

1. Fight Club
2. The Prestige
3. Casino Royale
4. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
5. A Walk to Remember

Host Reactions and Commentary

• A Walk to Remember (31:04):
  Andrew and Luke grasp at plot and genre details—Mandy Moore is identified; Nicholas Sparks’ works are discussed as “almost written for screen.”

  • Luke:
    “It feels like stuff that is almost written for the screen as it’s being written as a book.” (32:26)

• Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (34:41):
  Andrew has read the book and seen the movie, saying the film adds excitement to the otherwise “removed” and coffee-obsessed tone of the book.

• Casino Royale (36:59):
  Hosts banter about the Daniel Craig reboot versus the campy Peter Sellers 1967 version; Luke critiques its poker game logic.

• The Prestige (39:02):
  Brief confusion over the plot, then marveling at movie poster trends and Michael Caine impressions:

  • Andrew:
    “People of our taste and age cannot say Michael Caine without slipping into that.” (39:19)

• Fight Club (41:20):
  Both hosts praise the movie’s twist and the use of the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?” in the finale.

  • Luke:
    “My memory is... it goes from that kind of moment of realization to... 'Where Is My Mind' and just being like, that is a killer song to end this movie with.” (43:20)
  • Andrew:
    “This will be their introduction—the honesty—to the Pixies. Might have been mine a little bit.” (43:34)

Nominees and Reversals

• Luke adds “The Shining” (44:11):
  Luke claims Kubrick’s film vastly outshines Stephen King’s book (despite not having read it), supported by Andrew, who laments King’s taste in adaptations.

• Andrew adds “Gangster Squad”—book better than movie (45:59):
  A rare reversal, as Andrew notes a book adaptation (by director Ruben Fleischer) is much worse than the source.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “I appreciate that... This is a whole new level of nerd.”
  — Luke Burbank (01:07)

• On viral posts:

  • “I had that thing that happens every maybe once in a lifetime for me... And then, like a day later, a whole bunch of, like, kind of furry accounts were retweeting it.”
    — Andrew Walsh (13:22)

• “I cannot believe this stuff is on the radio. This is what our youth is being subjected to.”
  — Andrew Walsh (00:52)

• “If we do one thing tomorrow, we’ll be getting to the candy list.”
  — Luke Burbank (47:18)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00–10:00: Candy breakdown, Sweetwater story, childhood nostalgia
• 10:00–21:00: Viral social media gags, “Do Not Lean” sign saga, listener feedback
• 17:53–20:43: Airport self-service and employee camaraderie anecdote
• 30:01–44:43: Top Five “Movies Better Than the Book” list and breakdown
• 41:20–44:43: “Fight Club” and the impact of a killer soundtrack
• 44:11–46:29: Bonus: “The Shining” and “Gangster Squad” adaptations

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Tone & Style

True to TBTL tradition, the episode is meandering, affectionate, and self-deprecating, characterized by friendly ribbing, tangents about 2000s nostalgia, and affectionate geek-outs. List segments are approached less as definitive rankings and more as conversation starters with plenty of detours.

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Summary

This episode of TBTL delivers exactly what long-time listeners treasure: whimsical digressions, candy-fueled nostalgia, friendly rivalry over social media hijinks, and a crowdsourced top five list that launches a debate about book vs. movie superiority. As always, Luke and Andrew’s relaxed, joke-laden banter ensures that the promised candy ranking is pushed—yet again—to another day.

Transcript

[Andrew Walsh]

What I like to do is first lay down a kind of syncopated beat that isn't so much about what it is altogether. It's more about the modulation and what it is once it starts. It's a little bit of a groove more than it is a rock beat. I do a flam rest. Flam rest, Flam rest. Followed by sort of kind of an intricate African thing on the low drums. So it goes like. So the pattern is you ride on this tom here. Hopefully you've got the 17 toms. And it goes something like this.

TBTL. In the next hour, we will present information that's both shocking and enlightening. Oh, boy. Who keeps putting Twizzlers in the fridge? I told. Is it Sarah?

[Luke Burbank]

Crystal. Crystal. Does she like some?

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Well, Crystal, you and I are going to have another Twizzler talk. I cannot believe this stuff is on the radio. This is what our youth is being subjected to.

[Luke Burbank]

That was great. That was good.

[Andrew Walsh]

You went for it.

[Luke Burbank]

I appreciate that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my God.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my God.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my God.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a whole new level of nerd.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, all right. Hello, good morning and welcome, everyone, to a Monday edition of tbtl, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. It's electric and there's no turning back. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. I just want you to be normal. And clearly you're not. Coming to you from the Madrona Hill studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia on another rainy Monday, where we've made it friends to episode 4624 in a.

[Andrew Walsh]

Collector series, Let the fun begin.

[Luke Burbank]

It's beginning to look a lot like list, miss? That's right. We've got a list today that we're going to talk about of the best situations in which one can be eating candy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Here's my sweet stache. Let's freaking party.

[Luke Burbank]

Something that I've been doing weirdly more of late. I don't know what is going on. I don't know if it's the aging process, but I am developed more of a sweet tooth. And so this list comes at exactly the right time for me because I need to make sure that I know when and where is the best times to eat candy, as I'm sure all of you do, as I'm sure this guy does. Mostly right now he's focused on trying to further monetize tbtl. I gotta figure out how to make.

[Andrew Walsh]

Money on this thing.

[Luke Burbank]

It's simply too good. Of course, you know him as the longest running co bro of the program, possibly best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He's Andrew Walsh, and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good morning, Luke. This is. This is working out well. Do you hear this? You know what that is?

[Luke Burbank]

I thought it was the beginning of 60 Minutes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm Andrew Walsh. I'm Luke Burbank.

[Andrew Walsh]

I love it. This is a little bowl I have that has candy in it. And this candy came from an unexpected place last week. I haven't gone through all of it yet. I've had a little bit of it. But you know how I was all excited last week about my new microphone stand arm? One thing I didn't mention to you is I bought it from a company called Sweetwater. You've probably come across Sweetwater before. They sell all kinds of audio and radio equipment, right?

[Luke Burbank]

Any kind of like. Yeah, any kind of guitar stuff. You might need cables. They've really got the market corners. Also, the name of the band of my former next door neighbor who would never actually cut his trees the way he should have.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really. So this is adulthood. This is when you were in Mount Bake. I don't know how many.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. The band that I made, I mocked mercilessly on the show one day reading their website because I knew that my neighbor had written at all, but kind of in the third person.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yes. And then did you get. Did you get in trouble for this? No, nobody heard it.

[Luke Burbank]

No. No. A, nobody heard it, and B, he didn't. I don't. He was conflict averse. Conflict slash being a good neighbor. Averse.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. Well, that's why you moved out. But anyway, Sweetwater did something pretty sweet that I was not expecting. True to their name, they included two little bags of candy that said, you know, like, thank you for being a meat you've ordered. This is. This was my first.

[Luke Burbank]

You know what? Howard Stern buys stuff from them and talks about how they put candy in there.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, this? I'm biting. Howard Stern's bit. Well, I didn't want to do that. But actually, speaking of biting, can you.

[Luke Burbank]

Play a really shitty version of Blackbird while we're talking?

[Andrew Walsh]

Because then I'd really be stealing.

[Luke Burbank]

Can you play Dust in the Wind by Kansas, but about every second note is the wrong one?

[Andrew Walsh]

I. I want to tell you what's in. In this. It was a. It was a kind of a grab bag of various candies, but, like, kind of like, you know, small, you know, it's not. None of it's chocolate. That wouldn't travel well. They're just like. They pre make these bags and they throw it in your order at the last minute. So it's gotta be somewhat hardy. So you got these. I would put these on the sort of. And again, the list we're gonna hear later from your brother David from the basement.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, nice. It's dftb.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. It's gonna be the top five, I believe, candy eating experiences, not actually top five candies. So I think I'm in my right to do this. Oops. One of these is actually open. I'm gonna have to thr these two things. You know, the little. The little mint peppermint green one. Yeah. The red flavor green ones. I prefer the green ones. Unfortunately, this is the one that the. It's already compromised, so I'm gonna throw that away because you don't want me eating on the air. But these are the things that are in the little bowl at the front desk of a restaurant and you can grab them. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

I want to be nice about this. I think that those peppermints are. I don't even dislike them, but I think of them as the lowest form of candy.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's what I was gonna say. That's why I'm not trying to do my own list here, but there. And I actually. I think I do dislike them a little bit. Because you suck on them. I was trying to avoid the word suck, but here we go. You suck on them for a while, but eventually you're gonna bite into them. But then they're super sticky. Oh, God. Then they're super sticky and they get caught in your teeth and stuff. You know, I'm not gonna break apart.

[Luke Burbank]

They get a little. Sometimes there's a sharp. There's a. Basically a crevasse opens up sometimes in them. Kind of catch your tongue on.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know what you're talking. Oh, look, there's an orange one too. I've experienced red green before, but never orange. But then now I'm excited about these. I haven't had these in forever.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, boy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Dad's root beer in the Shape barrel.

[Luke Burbank]

Now that's elite candy in my mind.

[Andrew Walsh]

Especially for a dad's root beer in the barrel shape.

[Luke Burbank]

That is. That's a. That's a treat. That's an absolute treat. And in fact, I'm actually jealous that.

[Andrew Walsh]

You have a dad's root beer. I can save one of these for you. I got two of them, actually. And then you get into the chewies and this Is where things get interesting. There's a Laffy Taffy.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a lot of candy they gave you for free.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know. Let's see. A Laffy Taffy. Cherry flavored Laffy Taffy. I've never been a huge Laffy Taffy person, but. What's that? Oh, is that a song? Shake that Laffy Taffy.

[Luke Burbank]

Shake that Laffy Taffy. Shake that Laffy Taffy. I never saw you out in da clubs.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, you didn't.

[Luke Burbank]

Probably why you didn't hear I got a double bubble.

[Andrew Walsh]

A classic. Like just one double bubble.

[Luke Burbank]

Double bubble. I think the misleading. The sort of. How do I phrase this? It's a misleading name. Double bubble, Because I would say the flavor lasts maybe half of what a normal thing of gum. Not only is it not double. I know they're probably talking about the size of the bubble.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think they are. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

But the flavor with double bubble is always a. Always a disappointment.

[Andrew Walsh]

It starts low, and then it starts high and ends. Does it start high? I mean, it starts with that.

[Luke Burbank]

To me, it did.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bubble gum flavor, whatever generic pink bubblegum flavor is. The thing, though, is. And this is what I've been building towards here was. And this was the last one. Bit o honey. Bit o honey. Something. I don't even remember that much from my youth other than it seemed so much from my youth, like a grandpa kind of thing. But for some reason, when I saw that two bito honeys came with my microphone stand, I was like, that was the first thing that really caught my eye. I'm like, I want this bito honey. I even said to Genevieve, I'm like, hey, the radio people sent us some candy. Help yourself. But if you don't mind, just don't eat the bito honey. I want that. She's like, yeah, not a problem. I'm not going after your bito honey. I had one last night. It was good. What's people's problem with bito honey?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I remember being a kid and thinking, miss me with any candy that's honey flavored?

[Andrew Walsh]

We have honey and honey at home. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, what we don't have at home is we don't have Reese's cups.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

You know, we don't have Snickers. We don't have nugget.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do you have three musketeers?

[Luke Burbank]

Love those.

[Andrew Walsh]

We did.

[Luke Burbank]

We had two musketeers. We weren't rich enough for three.

[Andrew Walsh]

We have three musketeers.

[Luke Burbank]

We had Darth Canyon.

[Andrew Walsh]

And then you get home, it's Just two musketeers and other guy. Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

But you know, like I just remember being in the store and being like, don't like a bit o honey seems. I say this a lot, but it seems like a candy that was invented when they didn't have as good of when people didn't have honey in their cupboard, like as a normal thing. So if you're a kid, you're like, ooh, this is a sweet treat. But then at some point it became the default that everyone's going to have honey at their house. Therefore I'm not going to the store to buy something that tastes like something we already have in the cupboard at home. I'm buying chocolate now.

[Andrew Walsh]

My memory of it and I ate it last night. I'm trying to think it. It almost tasted. This is going to open up a whole nother argument front on us. But I almost feel like it had a maple taste. Could that possibly be true? Yeah, it tasted less like honey and a little bit more like a little bit of a syrup.

[Luke Burbank]

It's a honey flavored taffy with almonds.

[Andrew Walsh]

With almonds. That must have been what kind of. Maybe that's what I was thinking. But I really enjoyed it. And so far it's the only one that I've eaten out of the. Out of the who bunch. And I got one more here that, that I'm saving that Genevieve cannot have. Keep your hands off my biddo. Honey. Honey is what I said between the.

[Luke Burbank]

Mid and late 1970s, a chocolate flavored version called Bito Chocolate. Boy, that is creative naming.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, well, you. I mean, you have a brand you want to play on.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that's a good point. You know, it's not creative naming. We need to get to the actual list. This is going to be one of those. One of those weeks where it's like, well, this list could last us for four days. Because I need to tell you about Blueski posts that I put.

[Andrew Walsh]

I saw a couple. I saw this bucky one. Well, this.

[Luke Burbank]

I thought this Buc EE's one. It was so funny. Speaking of what I think of as maybe less than creative naming of things, the story is, you know, somebody had a baby at a Buc EE's. That kind of thing happens. Buc EE's is big. They call it the world's largest gas station. And I did this whole story premised on that. So I guess I'm complicit in this. But it's sort of a Costco with a lot more hot food being made at different stations that has Gas stations has gas pumps. You know what I mean?

[Andrew Walsh]

As big as a Costco, really.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, maybe not quite as big, but my point is that it's like. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's pitched as. It's like it's the world's biggest gas station. It's like. Well, no, it's a huge store that has gas pumps.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Because I like Buc EE's. Don't get me wrong. And I had my buc ee's hat on back last weekend when I did the family get together. And I was speaking of David from the basement. We were. I think I was talking to David and his wife alicia about Buc EE's. And we all love Buc EE's. Bucky's is a fun place. I'm not anti Buc EE's, but this baby was born at a Bucky. This is the Today Show. Mom gives birth. And they got a little picture of the baby who's just as adorable as can be. And the buc ee's sign. Mom gives birth in a buc ee's parking lot, and her baby girl gets a fitting nickname, Little Bucky. I think my tweet was. Or my post was incredible creativity with the nickname there. Like, what was little baby born in car at BUC EE's taken. Like, that's just. That's the. I feel like that nickname is not very creative at all. I mean, I guess these people just had a baby. They've got a lot going on. Maybe their strong suit isn't creative nicknaming of the baby. They just seemed a little on the nose.

[Andrew Walsh]

Luke, I'm sorry. I. I'm. Seriously, my mind is so flipping blown right now. I'm looking at your Blue sky account. By the way, I liked a Blue sky post you posted the other day. I don't know if you noticed that I gave it a heart.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, thank you. That's a rare. Well, I appreciate that. We're about to learn about my mom becoming a switch.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that was funny, but I'm about tear our entire relationship apart.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, no.

[Andrew Walsh]

I need you. Okay, before I tell you to do anything, I want to tell you a little story. Okay, I'm going to withhold certain parts of this.

[Luke Burbank]

For starters, starting tomorrow, five best candy situations.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, we'll get to it. We'll get to it today. But a few we. I don't know, like a month and a half ago, whenever I took a trip to Cleveland, Ohio, sometime earlier this winter fall, I tweeted Something or I blue skied something that for the first time in my life, actually went quasi viral. Emily Nussbaum, if I'm saying her name correctly. I, of course, yes. And I was not following the sun.

[Luke Burbank]

She written wrote an incredible book about the history of reality television, and I never followed.

[Andrew Walsh]

I followed her on Twitter back in the day. I did not know she was on blue sky, so I wasn't following her. But I posted something, and then I was on the airplane and I had wi fi, so I was, like, looking at things, and then suddenly my blue sky said I was looking at blue sky. And then out of the blue, suddenly it Sundays, you have 30 new notifications. I was like, what? And then I looked again. It's like, you have 30 new notifications. I'm like, what the heck is going on? Emily Nussbaum re posted something that I posted. And once she did that, I had that thing that happens every maybe once in a lifetime for me.

[Luke Burbank]

I remember from the couple of times it's happened to me, which is you're.

[Andrew Walsh]

Just like, oh, another hundred people, another hundred. It always limits it to 30 notifications. But then over the course of the next few days, I would watch it go across from, like, west coast time. And eventually I went to bed one night, and then I woke up the next morning, and a whole bunch of people from Europe had liked it and retweeted it. It eventually got into the furry community. And then, like a day later, a whole bunch of, like, kind of furry accounts were retweeting it. The tweet had nothing or the post had nothing to do with furries or anything. It was just interesting to watch this thing go viral and sort of. And it wasn't. It was one. It was 1300. They stopped counting individual likes after a while. But it's somewhere.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a post on blue sky.

[Andrew Walsh]

That you get, there's a blue sky, and it got 1.3 thousand.

[Luke Burbank]

Where is it? I'm like, I'm on your account. I want to see this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, it's the exact same one. I posted the exact same photo that I'm realizing a few weeks later or a couple of months later, you have posted the exact same photo from Sea Tac Airport that I posted.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, seriously? The leaning guy.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's a guy leaning on a barrier, and it's like a big. At the big edge. You call it the Ghostbusters symbol. Like, no leaning. And it says, do not lean on barrier. But it's funny because the black and white image, the guy who's leaning Looks so chill. He's like, so cool. And I wrote, I didn't even want to lean on this barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my God.

[Andrew Walsh]

And that's the only time I've ever gone viral. And now I see that about 15 days ago, you took the same exact. And this. I can tell it's the same sign based. Oh, wait, no, actually, the staples are going a different way, so it must have been different part of.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, there was a lot of them, if you noticed. And you stapled up like 50 of this. Do not lean on barriers.

[Andrew Walsh]

You literally made the same joke I did. You wrote. And miss a chance to look this cool? No dice law man. Basically saying, look how cool this guy is who's leaning on this barrier. You try. You saw me go viral and you got jealous and you thought, I'm going to steal this same exact joke and I'm going to post it and I'm going to. Once again, I am going to draft off of Andrew's popularity.

[Luke Burbank]

And Andrew, I was karmically rewarded with a total failure because it only has 22 likes. And so, you know, the hive mind realized that I was trying to just get a little more mileage out of your joke and they decided they were not going to reward me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now I can't believe I'm just like, looking. Cause you were talking of the bucky though, right? I mean, we made the same joke about the same exact sign in the. And I remember passing it too. And I remember thinking, I don't have time, I gotta catch my plane. But I was, that's. That's funny. And I got to the airport, plenty of time. I'm like, ah. I remember like kind of passing it, then taking a step back and being like, I gotta take a photo of this thing, but not really thinking that much of it. And then again, it's blue sky. Like some people liked it. It's not that big of a deal. It's not life changing, but it is a fun thing as you watch this post get appreciated, right? And so it's just so funny that here I am, I'm scrolling through your thing months later and I see that and I thought you. I was gonna thank you for retweeting my thing, but then I realized, can you check you did. Oh, well, this was definitely yours that I saw it.

[Luke Burbank]

No, but I'm saying here's. Here's. This is a possibility. Andrew, it's possible that I did see your post even maybe retweeted. And literally, men in Blackett from my own brain. Because obviously, I mean, all joking aside, you know that if I remembered that you had done a post, I would never do the same post unless it was through. Like, actually, that would be a really funny bit of trolling. If I just keep doing it every day. I just keep redoing your post. But obviously I wouldn't do that intentionally. So that would mean. But it's. You could probably look at the receipts and if I, If I liked or retweeted your post, it means very obviously I saw it and then completely erased it from my own brain. Saw these signs, hastily assembled signs at SeaTac, had the same thought process you did, and then posted my own loser version of yours.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't see an easy way to tell.

[Luke Burbank]

Why don't I see this on your feed, by the way? That's what I don't understand. I'm on Andrew Walsh. Are you sure?

[Andrew Walsh]

Walsh is my little. It's my little logo thing.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it's got a little.

[Andrew Walsh]

What's the latest thing. So do you see. Not the latest, but the, The Sony Walkman. I posted a couple.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, yeah, I see that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Then a little Update.

[Luke Burbank]

I see Mr. Matt. I see some.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, oh, okay. Snowman, by the way. But. Okay. Yeah. Some radios and then.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, no, I see it. Look at that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Look at that. You can even tell the wall is the same. Like, totally. A whole bunch of them.

[Luke Burbank]

It was that. It's some temporary. You know, they're doing some construction, obviously. At SeaTac.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And they're. Oh, by the way, I had a. I had a moment speaking of the CTAC construction. This is right before I took my photo, my less successful photo, Andrew. I had a. I had an interesting interaction with the guy working at the Alaska Airlines, like, bag check. Because I. Because of. I guess they're redoing the Alaska Airlines bag check area at SeaTac. That's part of this huge construction project. And so I, I had two. I was checking bags. So this was back when I was on that pretty long trip from Miami to other places. So I had different climates I was going to be in and shows. And so I had kind of a lot of luggage. And so I just checked it and you go up to the thing. I'm just a little. I'm kind of spoiled because I mostly fly Alaska and I have enough status that I just. What I do is I go and I wait in the line for the fancy people and then a very nice Alaska Airlines person, they greet you and you hand them your suitcases and they Put a sticker on it, and they put it on the conveyor belt, and it's out of your life. But if you don't have that status, there's another kind of hoi polloi option which is like, print out your own thing and then bring it to some kind of a, like, conveyor belt that you have to put it on and, like, do a whole thing. I don't know if that's the last time you flew, if that's what it was like for you. But basically, I go. I end up going over to. I follow the signs, and even though I'm in the, like, fancy line, I go up to this very nice guy. He's working at the desk, Alaska Airlines. But I can't just give him my bags. I have to, like, enter all my information into this screen. It's kind of like when I was checking to that hotel in LA and they made me use an iPad. Even though the guy was just standing at the counter. I'm like, I know what this is. They are freaking training us to start doing this ourself. They're trying to get rid of the guy who works here. And, like, I think his name was Armando. And so I was like, isn't that.

[Andrew Walsh]

The name of the guy from White Lotus?

[Luke Burbank]

Is that.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I think I must be wrong. Season one, didn't he have a name? Something like Armando? Maybe I'm wrong.

[Luke Burbank]

So this thing, I've got to type in a lot of information on my own, and then I have to put my own bags on this thing, which are actually heavier than I realized. I was like, man, I feel bad for these employees I'm having do this all the time. But they. There's an outline on the conveyor belt. You have to kind of put it on there and make sure it's in the outline and then hit something else. And I just realized, oh, they're just training me to do all of this stuff. And I said, armando, what's up with this? I go, like, they're having us do the whole thing that normally the Alaska employees would do. He goes. He goes, yeah, but, you know, the good news is that, like, when they redo all this remodeling, that the first class entry, though, there'll be someone there to help you. I go, yeah, but this is them trying to get everyone who's not in the mileage club or whatever to just start. I go, they're trying to. They're going to have the robots replacing us. And he goes, yeah, I don't know. I go, we need more Armandos and less robots. And he goes, hell, yeah, man. And we fist bumped.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice.

[Luke Burbank]

And I was like, me and Armando had a moment.

[Andrew Walsh]

There you go. By the way, Armand was the name of the hotel clerk. And I thought you were talking about the hotel clerk before when you said Armando, which is interrupted by. That's pretty cool.

[Luke Burbank]

But all that is to say that's the construction in question. It's these barriers, and they're kind of like. They're sort of sound barriers, slash. They're mostly just visual, I guess, but then they're kind of flimsy. They don't want people leaning on them. So that somebody printed out and laminated, I'd say, like, 10 to 15 of these signs and stapled them up all over that place.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now, I will say I'm not mad at you here because obviously I agree with you. There's no way you wouldn't want to post something that I already posted like that. That's lame, and you wouldn't go for that. But let's talk about our friend and longtime listener and supporter, Cinder. Cinder is. Yes, I see that Cinder gave you. The only comment you got on this was from listener Cinder, who has a. Has a big laughy emoji with tears coming out. Nice. I didn't get anything from Cinder. I didn't get anything from Cinder on my post.

[Luke Burbank]

And even though I got fewer. Fewer interactions, I got Zero Nuss bomb.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Retweeting on me. I got that coveted Conlin Laffy emoji, which, honestly, you can't put a number on that. That's. To me, that's worth 1300 retweets.

[Andrew Walsh]

So there is somebody I'm mad at, but it's not you, as long as.

[Luke Burbank]

You'Re mad at somebody. All right, let's thank some donors. These folks are supporting TBTL financially in these turbulent times, in these fractured media landscapes. Here we are doing this thing five days a week, 52 weeks a year. We. There's not a weekday that goes by without a new original TBTL episode. And it's thanks to folks like Malia Matic, who's out there in Everett, Washington.

[Andrew Walsh]

Thank you, Malia.

[Luke Burbank]

Thanks, Malia. Thanks to Brad Zwierink of Springfield, Missouri.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, when you say Springfield, it's always a. It's always a cliffhanger. We don't know what's.

[Luke Burbank]

We've been to Springfield, Missouri, Andrew.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah. Did we go through that when we were hitchhiking?

[Luke Burbank]

We did. When we. I don't know if we stayed in it, but didn't we try to stay in the Bass Pro Shop Hotel, but it was sold out or something.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I don't know if we tried to stay in the hotel, but we were near there. I remember. Oh, we stayed across the street. That was when the woman who was chain smoking dropped us off across the street from that place. Right?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. And we also, I think we went to a wonderful seafood buffet, or at least we considered it. Who knew? Springfield, Missouri, so much seafood buffet.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right. I do. Wait, I might be confusing my two different cities there, but. That's right. That was the seafood buffet place that we ended up swerving on.

[Luke Burbank]

I think so. I think it felt a little landlocked for that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

We went. But oh, you know what?

[Andrew Walsh]

We end up having a nice Italian. A succulent Italian meal. I'm now remembering where we.

[Luke Burbank]

Italian meal.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is there any chance you remember where we ended up? It was kind of a nicer place that had. I just remember it was like. Yeah, it was. It was nice and cozy in there. And I feel like maybe we had some wine. I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

That sounds about right. That seems like a thing that could have happened on that trip. Thanks to Lisa Curry, who's in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, well, we've now, I don't broadcast it from Lisa's driveway or parking lot before. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

In Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, that was when she was living in Southern California for.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, that's our. That's our Lisa.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my gosh. I don't even. Unless she's wearing a Green Bay packers jersey and standing in a sort of parking area in Oceanside, California. I have no context for our friends. Of course.

[Andrew Walsh]

And I said southern. Oceanside is northern, isn't it? No, it is southern. Okay, gotcha.

[Luke Burbank]

It's San Diego.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm losing confidence. I'm losing. I'm just raining confidence here.

[Luke Burbank]

No, no, no, no. You were right. Don't let me not remembering Lisa's last name drain your confidence, sir. You were right.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was wrong. Of course, we saw Lisa, too, in Wisconsin when we were.

[Luke Burbank]

We were hanging at the after party. After the party at. What was that place that we liked?

[Andrew Walsh]

The five o'.

[Luke Burbank]

Clock.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's five o' clock somewhere.

[Luke Burbank]

It's five o' clock somewhere.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Thanks, Lisa. We really appreciate you. Go pack. Thanks. Natasha Bruzewitz, who's in Moses Lake, Washington.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hey.

[Luke Burbank]

All right. I was telling you on the show like a week ago, Andrew, about the haircut I got where the person cutting my hair said, wow, what are you doing Getting Your hair cut by me if you're a TV star. And that one was from Moses Lake, Washington. I don't know if she knew Natasha, but that's that. That's what I think of now when I think of Moses Lake now. I mean, now I'll think of Natasha being there. Thanks, Natasha. Appreciate you. Thanks to Catherine Poe, who's in Elkins, West Virginia.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now, you know what I'm doing here? I'm trying to see how close is Elkins to Wheeling, because I spent a lot of time in Wheeling when I was a kid. Luke.

[Luke Burbank]

Were that where the churches were?

[Andrew Walsh]

That's where the churches were in my BAP sheet. Exactly. Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

This is wild. Andrew. We've got Catherine Poe, who's in Elkins, West Virginia. And then right down the road in Martinsburg, West Virginia. That's where Chelsea Davis is. Oh, Chelsea Davis and Catherine Poe. They're both in West Virginia and they're both donors today.

[Andrew Walsh]

Unbelievable. Thank you. For a second, by the way, my map was telling me it is literally impossible. There is no way to get from Elkins to Wheeling or vice versa. And that's because I was trying to do it via public transportation. There is a way to get that alive.

[Luke Burbank]

I get that a lot and. And it freaks my chili. Andrew, by the way, thank you to.

[Andrew Walsh]

All of our donors.

[Luke Burbank]

Couldn't do this without you. I am. A lot of times I'll be somewhere for a TV story and it's always a bit of a. It's a touch and go thing for me because I'm often doing TBTL with you. So I'm trying to get the producer to schedule our shoot in a way that I can do this. Sometimes I'm trying to do livewire from the hotel room. There's a lot going on and there's been more than one time where I'm putting it in ways to just see like, okay, we wrapped tbtl. My guess is it's a half hour away. Let me double check. And I put it in. And because the map thing is on walk or public transportation, it'll be like it's six hours away. And I'm like, oh, my God, I'm in the wrong state. I went to the wrong state. And then I switched over to car and said, oh, no, it's 20 minutes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Very terrifying.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know what I like to do sometimes? This is a joke I came up with a long time ago. So I'm going to set it up like that. I'm trying to think maybe I even tweeted this or something. In the old days, I just remember a long time ago thinking it was funny to tell your. Tell your Google map on your phone that you're walking somewhere, but then get in the car instead and just, like, really impress it.

[Luke Burbank]

Just like, look how fast I am.

[Andrew Walsh]

Speed Walker.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, listen, now that your blue sky career is taking off, you don't need to get your validation in these weird computerized ways like you do.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hey, Emily, I got another one. Hello, and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

Our top story. Andrew, we've mismanaged our time by being so entertaining.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know.

[Luke Burbank]

So. By being so entertaining.

[Andrew Walsh]

I know. It's just that I struggle with this. I'm too entertaining. All. Just ask Genevieve. She's like, you're too entertaining all the time.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. And because of that, we're running a little long. And today is. We're going to be trying to keep things kind of to time. Meaning we are going to. We're going to what? Carry over. We're going to.

[Andrew Walsh]

To.

[Luke Burbank]

We're going to move over. Our voicemail is from my brother about candy, and we're going to dig into something that is maybe we can do in a little more economical fashion. So this is. We're switching. Omaha, Omaha, Omaha, Omaha. I'm. People can't see this because this is audio, but I'm. I'm clearing the play. I'm audible ing. I'm up at the line. I see what. That I'm going to take what the defense is giving me, and I'm going to audible us into an rpo. And. And here it is. Who are we going to.

[Andrew Walsh]

Who are we going to hear from?

[Luke Burbank]

What are we going to read here?

[Andrew Walsh]

So what we're going to do here is, without disrespect, the list that we're switching to. So we didn't really set this up at the beginning of the show, but a while back, we started to get into this idea of top five lists. We're the only podcast to ever do this. If you've heard that this is something that they did on the LeBatard show, I don't know what you're talking about. That's crazy talk. But listener Bobby, I think, sent in a top five list in that style a while back, and it was fun. And so listeners started sending in their top five kind of experiences, covering all kinds of aspects of life. And that's why your brother sent in a whole bunch, including the candy one that you mentioned. It was like, top five candy experiences, which we're gonna hold off on that one because it's A long voicemail. But I did get an email here that's a bit of a shorter one. And this is from Aaron in Olympia. And I think that you and I can do this economically, Luke, because we are famously illiterate. And Aaron's list is top five movies that are better than the book. Wow. Okay. Aaron says I asked my five this question because he loves lists, and he immediately thought of top five movies that are better than the book. Now, the chance of you and I each having read and watched all of these is almost nil, but I'm interested.

[Luke Burbank]

I guess they would say a non zero chance, but as close to zero as it gets.

[Andrew Walsh]

In this case, it's about zero. I feel, though, because this is an email, we need some sort of audio spackle. Do you have anything there? I could play the TV tale calendar music. Oh, is this listy enough for you?

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, this definitely makes me want to show you an old Confederate flag.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. How much is this worth?

[Luke Burbank]

My great uncle gave me. And they said, sir, this was made in the 1980s. Your uncle's just a racist.

[Andrew Walsh]

So this was made in China.

[Luke Burbank]

Sir, this was made in China. Last year, this was bought on Amazon. Your uncle bought a Confederate flag on Amazon last week. You need to have a talk.

[Andrew Walsh]

This shouldn't even come here. All right, let's see here. So, Aaron, like, I don't. So I'm gonna need you to either Google or fill in the blanks on some of these for me. What about A Walk to Remember? Aaron says that was my contribution to this list. Number five is A Walk to Remember movie Better than the book. What do we know about this? This story?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know.

[Andrew Walsh]

A lot I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I know that it's Mandy Moore, because I'm looking. The movie is Mandy Moore.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, okay. For some reason, Mandy Patinkin I'm God, more excited about.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, there isn't anything that isn't improved by Mandy Patinkin. Although funnily enough, I do. I wouldn't saying I know Mandy Moore would be an overstatement. I did interview her for tv. She was.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah, right.

[Luke Burbank]

Correspondent since then, really quite nice person. It's a Nicholas Sparks.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, of course. Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Which I just learned recently, a lot of those books are set in the area of North Carolina where my granddad, Farnum Burbank, lived out his days down there in New Bern. A Walk to Remember. I cannot.

[Andrew Walsh]

I cannot do that music anymore, man. It was killing me. I'll go with this. We use this for. Hey, Dummies this is better. Is this. I feel so much more relaxed with this. That music was putting me on edge.

[Luke Burbank]

Did it make it feel like you needed to wax your mustache more? Something.

[Andrew Walsh]

It was just like, ah, it was so frenetic. It was like, am I watching Mama's Family or am I doing a top five list here? Okay, so there you go.

[Luke Burbank]

Walk to Remember.

[Andrew Walsh]

Number five was a walk to Remember. That was Aaron's contribution, which is interesting.

[Luke Burbank]

Because I don't want to sound. I haven't read the book or seen the movie and I don't want to sound like I'm being dismissive of Nicholas Sparks, his work, because, by the way, it's very popular and people seem to love it. But I get the sense that the Nicholas Sparks book is written almost like a movie.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like it's kind of cinematic and it isn't. What is Nicholas Sparks? Young adult literature. Am I wrong about that?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know if it would be. Originally, it's like he did the Notebook, which was actually about. Like the Notebook was about. I think it's. It's a. It's a beautiful story of a couple and then they have. There's an auto accident. And I think that the wife, maybe the wife loses her memory. And so the husband is like. Re. Basically reenacts their whole life together. He has this notebook that he's.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is.

[Luke Burbank]

This is awful. I can't believe I'm trying to guess at the plot of the Notebook. Has something to do with him. Basically. Like he's. He. She doesn't remember all of their special moments and he sort of recreates all their special moments or something like that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, but they're adults.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know what the funny thing is, is this must have come up on the show somewhat recently because I just typed in Nicholas Sparks and it autocompleted from my history. Nicholas Sparks movies. I forgot. Nicholas Sparks also writes for the screen as well as.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, also, I was loud wrong about the Notebook. It's not a car accident. It's a mill worker and a wealthy woman in the 1940s South Carolina. Also, by the way, Walt, what are you talking about saying? That's where the South Carolina is, not North Carolina. My dad gave me some bad intel on the Nicholas Sparks books. Anyway, they have an on again, off again relationship. It's framed by an elderly Noah reading their passionate love story from a notebook to Ally, who has Alzheimer's. So he is reading the story of their love to her because she's now forgotten about it. And then I Believe we see the younger actors reenacting what happened to them. Point being, it feels like stuff that is almost written for the screen as it's being written as a book.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because he is a screenwriter as well. And I'm looking at a list of all of his movies or books that immediately became movies. But yeah, and I know of the Notebook because that's what really got. I mean, I know Ryan Gosling was famous before that, but I think for a while that was like, you know, the guy from the Notebook. Okay, that was number five. Walk to remember. Number four, movie better than the book. The only one on this list that I've seen both the movie and read the book, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Stieg Larsson, Stieg Larson, you. Why do I know that having not nice.

[Luke Burbank]

Having not seen the movie or read the book.

[Andrew Walsh]

You stigged the landing is what I meant to say.

[Luke Burbank]

Possible show title.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, sorry, go ahead. I cut you off twice.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm looking at it here. Oh, Daniel Craig in the movie version. And like, is that Rooney Mara? Is that a Rooney Mara?

[Andrew Walsh]

It's one of the Maras. And I believe it's Rooney. It's Rooney you got in front of me. Yeah. Now it's been a while for both of these from me. They're very upsetting. The story of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And I read all three, I believe, or at least the first three when it was a trilogy. I'll bet you there's more now because it was so successful. But I do believe I read the original series of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And the thing I remember from the books is it's like gets in some really salacious and gritty stuff, but it's also written with. It's written from a sense of. It feels very removed. It feels like the perspective and the narration is very removed and everybody's very calm. And the thing I remember most is living. Luke, you would like this as a young hit person. They drink coffee all the time. Middle of the night, even before bed, getting ready to go to bed. They're always making. There's always busy work. And it's like he's always has them making coffee, drinking coffee, preparing the next day's coffee. And I always think about that. I'm like, it would just be so nice if I just could handle that much coffee in the day. But you hear how fast I talk after one cup.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I'm good for maybe one and a half cups total in the day. Maybe sometimes an afternoon, little pick me up. But but yeah, not like it sounds like they're doing in this book. It's also. This is neither here nor there, but I'm on the Wikipedia page for the film and they're. They're doing something sort of creative with the imagery on the movie poster. And it's Rooney Mara in profile and then it's also, I guess, Daniel Craig, but the whole thing, they have Rooney Mara's character looking exactly like Yolande Visser from that weird South African Zeff band or whatever.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, geez Louise.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, she looks like half of Dientoord in the poster for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. So anyway, just.

[Andrew Walsh]

So this next one on the list, number three movie better than the book, is Casino Royale, which this is.

[Luke Burbank]

Speaking of Daniel Craig.

[Andrew Walsh]

Speaking of Daniel Craig. Although. And I got. I assume that we're talking here about the remake of Casino royale, not the 1967 sort of rompy, because somebody took that James Bond book Casino Royale, but then turned it into one of those like, kind of, I think, horny romp comedy movies of the late 1960s. Right. The kind that you'd often find a Peter Sellers or kind of what the.

[Luke Burbank]

Austrian powers movies are sort of a parody of.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's my understanding of it, although I've never seen it. Let's see.

[Luke Burbank]

So, yeah, John Houston directed it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh. So this would have been kind of near the ending of it.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, look at this. Starring Peter Sellers.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is Peter Sellers. So I was. Oh, and Woody Allen. I must have saw this.

[Luke Burbank]

Orson Welles.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. I'll bet you I watched this in college because when I said a Peter Sellers type, I really didn't think he was in it. I did.

[Luke Burbank]

By Burke Bacharach.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, this was. This is, is. This is a vibe. That's the original one. But my guess is Aaron's Talking about the 2000s Casino Royale, which was very serious and had Daniel Craig. And I've never watched it because I heard there's a torture scene that is really rough.

[Luke Burbank]

I have watched it and I thought it was really good. I saw that in a theater. People loved it. Although I do, if I remember right, and I'm sure this came up on the show many years ago, I kind of feel like there's a. Of bit big. It opens with a big kind of casino card scene that doesn't really make.

[Andrew Walsh]

Total sense because, you know, casino card rooms or casino.

[Luke Burbank]

I know a fair amount and you know, kind of like how these games tend to go and it's like, of course they don't want the. They, they. They don't want the. The actual way that. Let's just say poker or I. Because I feel like it's a card game they're playing. They don't want to let the rules of the game get in the way of some. It's like everyone's turning over, like, five aces, and then someone has, like, six aces, you know, something like that. It's like my vague memory is that it's like, I don't think that's how that works, but. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, that's funny. Okay. Number two on the list. Number two movie better than the book, is the Prestige. What do we know about the Prestige?

[Luke Burbank]

It's about magic, right? Does it.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's what I think. Oh, it's a Christopher. I'm looking it up here.

[Luke Burbank]

No, it's Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman. Michael Caine. You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's inevitable. It's inevitable. People of our taste and age cannot say Michael Caine without slipping into that.

[Luke Burbank]

And you don't do the broken voice.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, Scarlett Johansson is in this.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, Scar.

[Andrew Walsh]

Jo, how do you feel? My dad laid something on me when I was visiting him a couple of months ago. He just said, I don't like her. She appeared in a commercial or maybe she appeared in a commercial for a movie that she's in or something. He's like, I don't like her. I'm like, huh? Like, I've never heard anybody have a strong opinion on her, generally speaking. I just thought that people like her.

[Luke Burbank]

In movies I have not heard about. I've not heard any. Yeah, the same thing. I've not heard anybody who has a problem with Scarlett Johansson's work. And I remain a big fan. Now, here's what's interesting, Andrew. The movie poster for the Prestige looks a ton like the movie poster for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, except it's just different peoples on there.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, really?

[Luke Burbank]

But it's like. It's like the same thing where you've got, like. In this case, it's three different people, whereas the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is two people, and they're all kind of in profile and overlapped with each other.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, wow. I. I must just. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Must be a thing they were doing around this time.

[Andrew Walsh]

One was 2006. One with was 2011. So I'm gonna call that the same kind of era. That's interesting. Kind of the way book covers all looked alike a few years ago. They were all.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my gosh. They were all that cartoonish. That kind of where you're at. Where you at, Bernadette?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Or where'd you go, Bernadette? Kind of like. Like cover art at every single Hudson News bookseller.

[Andrew Walsh]

Every. I feel. I felt like they were almost like candy. Sort of like you would see them and you want the covers really were. They did draw you to it. I feel like. All right, are you ready for the number one?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. I'm so ready. I should have gotten a drum roll ready for this if I knew we were gonna.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, and we're out of jazz music, apparently. But that's okay. We're almost out of energy, too. The number one movie that is better than the book, according to Eric and her five is.

[Luke Burbank]

I can skip ahead.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, we done? Or is there gonna be a.

[Luke Burbank]

That's just.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Fight. That was good, though. I'm glad we did that. Fight Club. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Wow. Fight Club. Okay. Book a movie better than book.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is the point. Movie better than book now. Have you read the book?

[Luke Burbank]

I have not read the book. I've seen the. No, I might have read the book. I think I might have read Fight Club.

[Andrew Walsh]

It seems like it came out long.

[Luke Burbank]

Enough ago that I was back when I still read books for fun, not just as an assignment from my. My other job.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because it's. How do you say, his last.

[Luke Burbank]

Chuck Palahniuk.

[Andrew Walsh]

Palahniuk, yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Who I was at the Mazda dealership with some time back about a year ago. We were both waiting to have our cars serviced, and I was going to say to him, hey, I'm that radio host who interviewed you once. Once on stage when you were on an ambient and red wine, and you were totally insane the whole time. And then I thought, I'll leave that alone.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. Because he probably didn't remember if he was in that state anyway, so there you go. I. You know, I have. I can't weigh in on. Because I've only seen the movie. I liked the movie. I wasn't as obsessed with it as some people were. Like Genevieve. Genevieve was obsessed with Fight Club when I met her. Yeah. That would have come out before we met, and she was obsessed with it.

[Luke Burbank]

I really liked them. That movie, though, I have to like. Yeah. And you know what? I don't think I read that book because I remember being pretty shocked at the end of the movie and what the twist of it is. And then I think, what's so genius about is it goes right from. I think, anyway, my memory is. It goes from that kind of moment of realization to where is my mind yes is the song that plays under the closing credits. And it's just like, perfect Time. I remember. I remember watching this on a Netflix dvd, Andrew, that I had rented that Netflix had mailed to my house in that little envelope. And I was in my basement of my first. Where the Cryon Tree is my first house there on Beacon Hill. And I remember going from just like, moment of, like, holy crap to, like, you know, the opening notes of Where's My Mind? And just being like, that is a killer song to end this movie with.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. And I can picture that last scene, at least how my mind remembers it. And I remember also thinking, this is interesting because a lot of people. This is going to be their introduction to, like, the younger generations. This will be their introduction to the honesty.

[Luke Burbank]

Might have been mine a little bit. I've never been a Pixies guy. I mean, I probably had heard, you know, this Monkey's Gone to Heaven or something. I don't think I knew that song, though, to be honest with you, until that movie, it said.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. I feel like now I'm looking at it here on Spotify, and it's got huge numbers. It's probably. I would guess it might be one of their most famous songs, but I can't tell you if it would have always been one of their most famous songs before this movie. But it certainly is. I feel like it would have been, but. But maybe not. But. Yeah, that was a really arresting way to end the movie.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Oh, I've got one. Can I throw in a last little nominee? But I haven't read the book.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Oh, but you haven't read it, but you're gonna say that the movie's.

[Luke Burbank]

But I'm gonna. I'm not gonna let that stop me, Andrew. A person of a more limited imagination would let that stop.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure.

[Luke Burbank]

But I'm not that person. I think the Shining. I love the movie the Shining. And I know Stephen King was very mad because. Because Kubrick took out some of his hedge monsters. Kubrick kind of made it. I think, you know, there was more kind of weird magic in the book than there was in the. And then, of course, they. They made a TV version of it. TV movie version that was more to Stephen King's liking. And I thought it was a lot worse.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, it was terrible. It was with Stephen Weber. And Stephen King was like, I like this one. And the thing he really didn't like is that they removed the idea of Tony being actually. Is corporeal the right word? I feel like I throw that out a Lot, in other words.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, so Tony was a real person, not just a little man who lived in Danny's voice.

[Andrew Walsh]

I read. It's funny. This is. It's funny you brought this one up. Because I have read the book and seen the good movie, the theatrical release, and I'm pretty sure that, yeah, maybe Tony did manifest actually as a being in the book. Because I feel like that was Stephen King's complaint. And then they returned that in the. In the made for TV1, whatever it was, with Stephen. Stephen Weber. Right. That's the right wings. Yeah. And. And it's just like.

[Luke Burbank]

It's.

[Andrew Walsh]

So. I know we've had this conversation a lot because I think I've grabbed the screen grab of, like, tone of. Of Stephen Weber, like talking under a tree or something to Danny. Is that the kid's name? Danny? But it just seems so cheesy. And it's sort of one of those things where it's like, what? Boy Stephen King, Nobody can deny that. He can. He can write an amazing story. Right. But he also kind of bad taste.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, that's why I'm confident, saying, having not read the Shining, that I think the Kubrick version of the Shining is probably better than the original Stephen King book.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, I'm gonna say a book that was better than the movie. And this is gonna hit a little bit close to home for you. Cause you play poker. The greatest story ever told, called Gangster Squad, which was directed by a friend of yours who I usually like. I remember liking the movie. I thought, yeah, yeah, Reuben Fleischer. Because I was a fan of Ruben Fleischer and some of his really early work. And I remember, like, reading Gangster Squad.

[Luke Burbank]

He did Zombieland, Right?

[Andrew Walsh]

He did Zombieland, which I've never seen all the way through, believe it or not. And I know that that's, like, really celebrated. Yeah, I think that's a great movie from everything I hear. But I remember being excited. I'm like, I happen to have read Gangster Squad. I don't know why. Again, I'm sort of drawn to that kind of noiri. Kind of crime stuff. And so then I went to see the movie and I was like, oh, my God, this is. This doesn't live up. So that would be my list of one book that was better than the movie.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. I'm not going to tell Reuben that when I don't see him again.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, you haven't seen him in Los Angeles.

[Luke Burbank]

Haven't seen him in a while, so. But if I do see him, I will. I'll low key. That part of the.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, good. You ready to get out of here?

[Luke Burbank]

I am so ready, as are the listeners, probably. But I have amazing news. We're going to be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio and we will get to our candy list. Okay?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

If there's any. If we do one thing tomorrow, we'll be getting to the candy list. So if you can tune in for that. In the meantime, everybody have a great Monday. Hope all your. Nice. Really good. Nice pivot, my friend. Do you know my Wilco cover band? We played this song.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did the crowd love it?

[Luke Burbank]

We never played for anyone. When I say played the song, we practiced it. We had zero gigs. All right, we'll see you tomorrow. Please remember, no Mountain Too tall and.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good luck to all. Power out.