#4763 Jort Circuit

Summary

TBTL #4763 "Jort Circuit"

Date: July 3, 2026
Hosts: Luke Burbank, Andrew Walsh
Guest/Producer: John Sklarov

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Episode Overview

In this pre–Fourth of July edition of TBTL, hosts Luke Burbank and Andrew Walsh are joined by producer John Sklarov for a breezy Friday episode. The trio digs into the fine distinctions between “jorts” and “cutoffs,” reminisce about ’90s music festivals (and their questionable fashion choices), share personal stories about smoking and Pez candy, preview upcoming TBTLathon 17 festivities, and surf through a tidal wave of listener-submitted frog names for their entry in the Valley City Frog Jump. This episode is packed with nostalgia, lighthearted banter, quirky debates, and community updates—all wrapped in the show’s signature self-effacing humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Jorts vs. Cutoffs: A Denim Debate

[03:15–05:10]

• Luke introduces Andrew (the “longest running co-bro") and calls out his recent jort-wearing; the audience immediately demands he wear pants instead.
• Andrew and Luke dissect the terminology:
  • Andrew: “What's the difference between cutoffs and jorts?" [03:18]
  • Jorts = jean shorts (may or may not be made by cutting off jeans). Cutoffs can be any pants cut into shorts, not just denim.
• John admits he doesn’t currently own jorts but wore them during his “misguided youth in the ’90s.”
• The trio explores odd fashion trends, including sweatpants shorts:
  • John: “The most egregious kinds of shorts I owned... Sweatpants shorts were a thing for a few years.” [05:00]

Memorable Quote:
Luke: “You could cut off... you could be wearing some khakis and you could cut those off, and they would technically be cutoffs. They wouldn’t be jorts.” [03:50]

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90s Music Festival Nostalgia

[05:19–16:00]

• Luke reminisces about attending “End Fest” as a teenager, describing his classic look:
  • “I wore cutoff jean shorts to End Fest... low top Converse... Dick’s Drive In T shirt.” [07:36]
• Andrew recalls Cleveland’s “107.9 The End,” a similarly branded alternative station, remembering marathon REM “End of the World” song debuts and (possibly misremembered) Green Day shows.
• Discussion of specific End Fest lineups—bands like Belly, Catherine Wheel, Hammerbox, Helmet, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Social Distortion, They Might Be Giants, X.
• John’s first concert: Green Day (American Idiot tour), then details of K Rockathon in Syracuse (Three Doors Down, Papa Roach, Street Sweeper Social Club).
• Tales of smoking to impress girls; Luke narrowly avoids a life of addiction by not “rewarding the loop” the morning after End Fest.
  • Luke: “I thought I could really go for a cigarette right now... I really think I would be smoking today if I would have had that cigarette...” [13:59]
• Andrew shares a story about someone who almost quit smoking after a hospital stay, lamenting relapsed resolve.

Memorable Quote:
Andrew: “Nothing makes you want to smoke a cigarette more than the idea of replacing it with a carrot.” [15:49]

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Pez Candy: The Original “Quit Smoking Aid”

[15:56–18:40]

• Luke drops a fun fact: Pez was invented as a European smoking replacement mint—hence the dispenser’s design.
  • Luke: “Started off in Austria as a smoking replacement mint... Pez is just a condensing of the German word for peppermint...” [15:56]
• Andrew recalls being gifted Minecraft Pez dispensers by a listener, with his partner Genevieve continuing the Pez tradition in a clandestine, pseudo-prohibition style.
  • “She bends over towards the drawer and does it like she’s taking a hit of snuff... Like, I don’t know if she feels like she needs to be clandestine about it or something...” [17:30]
• Light discussion of habits, rituals, and the difficulty of breaking both big and small routines.

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Holiday & Summer Plans

[20:00–24:18]

• John’s Fourth of July: heading out on a pontoon boat with the pups to “do exactly what the founding fathers had in mind.” [20:23]
• Andrew plans a traditional “neighborhood walk and beverage crawl” with friends, wrestling with the urge to complete a backyard pole saw project.
• Luke’s going camping on the Oregon coast (Manzanita) with friends and Becca; speculates about bathroom facilities and lightly jokes about “glamping” in comfort.
  • Luke: “I just get a new one every time I go camping, you know.” [22:56]
• The crew riffs on camping, dogs, and the “put-together” nature of their friends organizing the trip.

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TBTLathon 17 Preview & Valley City Ohio Adventure

[24:40–34:26]

• Tease of the upcoming TBTLathon 17 (“Jumping for Joy”) in Valley City, Ohio, coinciding with the Valley City Frog Jump and a community center event in Andrew’s old elementary school.
  • The hosts reminisce about old school urinals, water fountains, and playground pranks (like boosting the water fountain stream).
  • Andrew: “Remember what a big deal it was to go to the water fountain? You would line up with your classmates... You couldn’t wait...” [25:58]

Zoom Night Announced

[29:04–32:03]

• John announces the TBTLathon 17 Zoom Night:
  • Date: Wednesday, July 15
  • Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
  • The theme: “Show & Tell”—viewers are invited to show objects from their youth or something nostalgic to share stories.
  • Registration required via a link at TBTL.net (no cost).

Memorable Quotes:
Andrew: “You know, that type of stuff we’re showing off... the stuff you might not even know why you’ve held onto it.” [31:24]
John: “If you don’t have anything to share... just come hang out, hang out with your friends.” [31:48]

Newsletter & Donor Gifts

[32:26–35:26]

• TBTL Donor Gifts for the Thon will be revealed exclusively in next week’s TBTL Newsletter; sign up at TBTL.net.
  • Andrew and Luke hype the quality and design of this year’s gifts, tease “amazing” artwork, and endorse Andrew’s growing reputation as a newsletter writer.
  • Andrew’s “Moment of Lucy” (pet photo feature) gets a shout-out from John.
  • Segue into a cute tangent about dogs in diapers and the realities of “dog parenting.”

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Listener Mailbag: Frog Naming Frenzy!

[38:03–48:34]

• The TBTL team is entering a frog in the upcoming Valley City Frog Jump and calls on their listeners for creative name suggestions—reading dozens from email.
• Notable entries and puns include:
  • Jackie Jortjump / Jackie Jorp Jump
  • Leap Day William
  • Frog of War
  • Kenny Froggins / Froggins in Missing
  • Randy Arosa-Ribbit
  • Doogie Bouncer (“though that frog would be a nerd” — Luke [42:33])
  • Early Hopland (a play on Erling Haaland, soccer star)
  • Pod Frog (tribute to Pod Dog)
  • Santos L. Hopper (deep Simpsons reference)
  • RBTL (“pronounced ribbit-L”)
  • Long Legged Larry (possible Lawn Chair Larry anniversary tie-in)
  • Amphifa (amphibian + antifa, referencing protest frogs at the reflecting pool)
  • Numerous others—every pun explored and workshopped.

Memorable Exchanges:
Luke (about "Leap Day William"): “Tried to explain Leap Day William to somebody who doesn’t watch 30 Rock... big waste of time.” [39:22]
Andrew (on Doogie Bouncer): “That frog is going to be a nerd, though.” [42:33]
Luke (on Early Hopland): “We’re going to have to find a frog that’s six–eight with long blond hair.” [47:07]

• Internal debates on which names are best, with special love for “Jackie Jortjump” and “Early Hopland,” and lots of 30 Rock references.

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Notable Quotes & Comedic Highlights

• “You look like you’re suppressing laughter... You can just laugh." – Luke to Andrew, lightening up the camaraderie from the start [01:51]
• “My favorite fun fact that I’ve been boring everyone with lately...” – Luke, teeing up the Pez story [15:56]
• “They don’t do anything halfway. I’m expecting there will be a butler and someone to do turndown service on my sleeping bag.” – Luke, forecasting the fanciness of his camping trip [22:56]
• “What’s the difference between cutoffs and jorts?” – Andrew, launching the signature TBTL deep-dive into the minutiae of everyday language [03:18]
• “Oops, all jorts”—Andrew, joking about turning the Zoom event into a jorts-only affair [32:13]
• “If we could just work Mickey Rourke in...” – Luke, searching for the next unbeatable frog name pun [48:12]

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Timestamps for Major Segments

| Segment | Start | End | |-------------------------------------|---------|---------| | Jort vs. Cutoff Debate | 03:15 | 05:10 | | End Fest & Festival Nostalgia | 05:19 | 16:00 | | Smoking/Pez Origins & Habits Talk | 15:56 | 18:40 | | Holiday Weekend Plans | 20:00 | 24:18 | | TBTLathon 17, Community Center Chat | 24:40 | 29:00 | | Zoom Night/Show & Tell Preview | 29:04 | 32:03 | | Newsletter/Gift Tease | 32:26 | 35:26 | | Dog/Diaper Tangent | 35:26 | 37:14 | | Frog Jump Naming Mailbag | 38:03 | 48:34 | | Wrap-up & Sign-off | 48:34 | End |

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Episode Tone

Warm, irreverent, and self-deprecating. The hosts’ close friendship and extensive history pepper the show with inside jokes, gentle ribbing, and a sense of TBTL as a “listener family.” Occasional nostalgia and honest vulnerability balance the goofs.

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Conclusion

This Friday “Jort Circuit” edition of TBTL is a perfect encapsulation of the show’s eclectic blend of comedy, pop culture, personal stories, and participatory community spirit. Whether you’re here for denim taxonomy, ’90s festival memories, ingenious frog puns, or just the sound of friends making each other laugh, it’s a joyful slice of “Americana” just in time for the holiday weekend.

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Power Out!

Transcript

[Andrew Walsh]

By Gage Charles.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

O say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars Were so gallantly there as the rockets were there and the twilight's last gleaming and the rockets red glare Were so gallantly there Burstripes were all there and the rockets were there. O say, does that star spangled banner yet glaze for the land of the free and the home of the brave?

[Luke Burbank]

T b t l.

[John Sklarov]

Guess what day it is. Guess what day it is. It's Friday.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

Friday.

[Luke Burbank]

Gonna get down on Friday.

[Andrew Walsh]

Everybody's looking forward to the weekend.

[John Sklarov]

Your favorite dish?

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

My favorite dish.

[Andrew Walsh]

I like mugs because they're very comfortable in your hand and they hold the

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

hot things that you don't have to touch.

[Luke Burbank]

So, you know, coffee or hot tea. You look like you're suppressing laughter. Like that sound you just made was like, I don't want to make any laugh sounds while he's telling jokes. You can just laugh.

[Andrew Walsh]

You're the only one with the capacity for such tenacity and audacity. But more than anything, I admire your veracity. Please clap.

[Luke Burbank]

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

[John Sklarov]

Be careful, though, it's spicy.

[Luke Burbank]

My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host, coming to you from the Madrona Hill studios on this Friday, July 3rd. It's effectively for us, the 4th of July. It's a holiday show.

[John Sklarov]

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

[Luke Burbank]

We are here to celebrate all things Americana and boom goes to dynamite. Not really. We're actually here to talk about the tbt. I guess that's a form of Americana. That's kind of how you think of this country.

[Andrew Walsh]

Got lots of news.

[Luke Burbank]

Some updates on the Thawne here on episode 4763 in a collector series, Let the fun begin. And we're also going to talk to this fella, longest running co bro of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He was wearing jorts yesterday during the show. And we heard about it from the audience. They have one request today for him.

[John Sklarov]

First of all, you must wear pants for this.

[Luke Burbank]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

What's the difference between cutoffs and jorts?

[Luke Burbank]

I think jorts is just maybe the en vogue term for jean shorts.

[Andrew Walsh]

I see. They don't have to, actually. They could just be denim shorts that Were never full length pants.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, jorts would have to be. I guess you're right. You know what? They could be jean shorts. Them being cut off, them having previously been long pants is not a necessary condition. But they have to be denim as. As opposed to cutoffs. You could cut off. You could be wearing some khakis and you could cut those off and they would technically be cut offs. They wouldn't be George.

[Andrew Walsh]

They wouldn't be George. There you go. We're your fact checking. Cuz is.

[Luke Burbank]

We sure are. Oh, actually, you know who is probably checking the facts on this is our friend and colleague, TBTL employee numero uno, John Sklarov.

[Andrew Walsh]

Believe it or not, I'm a complete catch.

[Luke Burbank]

Who is joining us here on this Friday. John, welcome to the program.

[John Sklarov]

Hey guys, how's it going? Thank you.

[Luke Burbank]

Do you, do you wear jean shorts? Do you own any jorts?

[John Sklarov]

I can confidently say at this point in my life I do not own a Jord's. I did when I was in my youth, my misguided youth in the 90s, but not now.

[Andrew Walsh]

And when you say jorts, you're talking about cut off jeans or you're talking about you went to the store and you bought shorts that are made of denim.

[John Sklarov]

I. I think it's like a rectangle square thing. All denim shorts that are cutoffs or jorts, but not all jorts are cutoffs.

[Andrew Walsh]

And what were you rocking?

[Luke Burbank]

No jorts because jean shorts.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

You could have had some Carl Kanai.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

Long.

[Luke Burbank]

This is what I see you in. Some long black denim shorts, let's say. Carl Kanai. But those would be technically jorts because they would be jean shorts.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

They don't have to be cut off.

[John Sklarov]

No, no. Correct. Yeah. Sorry if I confused the issue. Yeah, no, I did own jorts. You know, the most egregious kinds of shorts I owned back in the day in like my high school years. Sweatpants shorts were a thing for a few years.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I was into those.

[John Sklarov]

They had like an elastic band or at the waist. Like you kind of like with like the little thing where you press down and pull the string to kind of tighten it. If that makes sense.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I had some Russell sweat shorts that I was big on wearing as a kid. I actually had. I remember I wore cutoff jean shorts to jorts. I wore jorts to something called end fest.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Which was the Music Festival for 107.7 the end. And it was actually at the Kitsap county fairgrounds, not too far from where my folks live.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now, did Green Day play. I remember Green Day played at one of ours in Cleveland.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, no, because this was associated with specifically 107.7 the end, the race.

[Andrew Walsh]

But we had 107.9 the end. I have a feeling it was like owned. We had, you know, the End, I believe was a brand of stations around the country.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

Really?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, we had end stations.

[Luke Burbank]

I thought they just called it that because it was the end of the dial. I. This is the first time learning that that might have been, you know, that there might have been, you know, more. More than one the End station.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm pretty sure they were a lot because I remember 107.9 was something else. And I'll never forget what they did to introduce 107.9 the end as an alternative station is they played the End of the World as We know it by rem for 24 hours straight. I'm not jok a way of introducing 107.9 the end, which then stuck around. I don't know if it's still there in Cleveland, but it was like, you know, all throughout the 90s, it was like the alternative station.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that's really. I'm trying to see if the Internet is not telling me one way or the other on if those two stations were actually. I mean, they're playing the same kind of music. They're called the End. It stands to reason that they would be. Have some. Some kind of managerial overlap. But I was really into 107.7 the end, and I went to End Fest. And the bands that played Andrew and John were. They Might Be Giants, the band X, the band Hammerbox. I'm trying to remember who else played that. I think it was the inaugural End Fest and I was thinking what to wear, what to wear. And so I wore jorts, cut off jean shorts. I wore low top, Converse, you know, like, you know, like think of your typical Converse sneaker, but the low top. And my Dick's Drive In T shirt.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, nice.

[Luke Burbank]

From having worked at Dick's Drive in because I wanted, I wanted it to say I, you know, I care about fashion, but not that much, but I'm also kind of a cool casual guy.

[Andrew Walsh]

What color do you remember? Like what?

[Luke Burbank]

You know, bright orange. You mean the Dick's shirt?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, that. That's awesome. And that's how I can picture it.

[Luke Burbank]

But that's a given.

[Andrew Walsh]

We're all this talk of cutoffs and George and you said something interesting to John, which is you mentioned they could be black and you're Right. That's what I see even to this day around my neighborhood. Kind of very loose, black cut off jeans is something usually with a wallet chain and a dirty look to go along with it. But when you're going to End fest in the 90s, are they black, are they blue? Mine are gray right now, by the way, just to tempt you a little bit more.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm sorry, I was looking up End Fest lineups. Are you saying were my jorts.

[Andrew Walsh]

What color were you? Just blue jeans.

[Luke Burbank]

They were. They were. You know what they were. Believe it or not, they were not unlike this. This jacket that I'm wearing that's only John and Andrew can see. And I bet you even for you on the camera, it's hard to tell that this is actually. It's like. Like a. I'm like a train conductor kind of stripes.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, very tight stripes.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, very tight stripes. I bought this at Harrods in London, by the way. Not to brag. And also, you know what it's doing on camera. They never let me wear this on CBS because it's ombre.

[John Sklarov]

Is that what that's called?

[Luke Burbank]

The lines are too close together for the camera. But I was wearing. They were jorts that were basically this pattern of jean shorts.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now you got to be careful with that. Could look a little bit. Could look a little bit circusy.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I think I. I also smoked like one and a half entire packs of cigarette. So I was probably green in the face and circusy in the outfit. Here was the lineup from this End Fest, by the way, was not the first one. It was the second one. August 7, 1993, Kitsap County Fairgrounds. Belly.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I love Belly. I've seen them twice.

[Luke Burbank]

The Catherine Wheel. These are not going to mean as much to you, John, as they might mean to Andrew.

[John Sklarov]

So far, 0 for 2.

[Luke Burbank]

Hammerbox. This is going to mean a lot to Camaro. Kev, Andrew. Helmet.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, Helmet. Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult.

[Andrew Walsh]

Remember those guys? Yes, I remember the name. Yep.

[Luke Burbank]

Social Distortion. I remember they played their cover of Ring of Fire and I thought it was a Social Distortion original.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was probably actually. No, that was probably my first exposure to that song too, honestly.

[Luke Burbank]

They Might Be Giants, School of Fish and X. That was the lineup that day in Kitsap County.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now this is going. I mean, so I'm seeing something here on Reddit that says this is Cleveland End Fest. This plays a little bit more into what you're saying, Luke. Cause I remember going to some sort of free concert downtown Cleveland. I didn't even go into it. I was on the other side of the fence. Green Day was playing. I think it was free. I'm not entirely sure. Maybe not forget the free part, but I remember that being the end 107.9 the end. And I thought it was a regular thing. But now what I'm seeing on Reddit is somebody putting this in 97, which would be long after I was out of high school. Well, like two years after I was out of high school, which is not what I was remembering. And it says end fest 5-17-97. Somebody posted this in the Cleveland subreddit. I went to a music festival, put on 107.9 the end in 1997. Trying to find the full list of who played, but the Internet is coming up really short. The only evidence I can find is a little blurb that advertises quote, end Fest will be held at blossom beginning at 2pm and by the way, the thing that I'm thinking of did not take place at Blossom Music center or whatever it's called, an outdoor venue with musical acts including the Mighty Mighty, Boss Tones, Barenaked Ladies, Soul Coughing, Moby Sloan, and more. Shout out to Sloan, by the way. So anyway, that's not. Maybe the thing I was thinking of with Green Day was something else that maybe didn't have the same brand.

[Luke Burbank]

Might have been the Warp tour. Might have been Big Stink was something that Becca used to go to outside of Salem that would have the Green day played in 97. The End Fest in Seattle featured such bands. I won't read the whole list because it's long, but foo Fighters, Matchbox 20, Radiohead.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Luke Burbank]

They had Radiohead, Sky Cries Mary. I was a big Sky Cries Mary guy in high school.

[Andrew Walsh]

Never heard of that, by the way.

[Luke Burbank]

It was just kind of, I don't know, sort of kind of ambient feel. Like every song was like 11 minutes long. It was when I was also very much in my Cocktail Twins phase. Oh, that hasn't ended. Super Deluxe, the Crystal Method, the Dandy Warhols, and then the Offspring. So that was the 97 lineup for. For my End Fest.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you ever go to like a music festival or anything like that, John, when you were a kid? What were you listening to there in Westchester?

[John Sklarov]

Actually, when I was like in high school, I didn't really go to a lot of concerts. My first concert actually was Green Day, their American Idiot tour at Giant Stadium. And it was opened by Jimmy Eat World was the opener. But like, the only like, festival I've ever been to like you guys are describing, that's a music station I was actually just looking up to confirm the lineup. It's. It was K Rockathon 14, which is in Syracuse, New York, at the New York State Fairgrounds. And the head line here was three doors down. Papa Roach was there. I don't remember that.

[Luke Burbank]

Papa Roach.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is that the kind of big, bad voodoo daddy sound you might know?

[Luke Burbank]

Papa Roach is more like Good Charlotte. That's not going to help you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nope.

[John Sklarov]

Kind of.

[Luke Burbank]

Kind of like pop punky kind of.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[John Sklarov]

Their hit song starts off with Cut My. I'm not going to sing it because I'm going to spare the listeners. But the first lyrics are Cut My Life Into Pieces.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's Papa Ro Pa.

[John Sklarov]

So them. And then. But the one band I actually. I didn't know going into it that was super awesome was Street Sweeper Social Club, which was a Tom Morello project. And so I got to see him live and that was. He was.

[Luke Burbank]

I saw him on the black carpet outside of the Metallica show right before he stormed off.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, it was.

[Luke Burbank]

The last thing I remember was seeing Tom Morello before I threw my gear down on the ground and stomped over to the Del Taco.

[Andrew Walsh]

He was. I had his name a second ago, and then I absolutely. He lost it. Who's the Aquaman actor? Who is.

[John Sklarov]

Jason Momoa.

[Andrew Walsh]

Jason Momoa and him were just like, hanging out. Black carpet.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

They were clove cigarettes.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, exactly. I've told this story a million times, but the result of all that cigarette smoking that I was doing at Enfest, trying to impress a girl named Melissa Goodman, which, by the way, unsuccessful, was that the next morning I woke up, I remember at my house and everything in my bedroom, and I woke up and I thought I could really go for a cigarette right now. And I didn't have any cigarettes, and I didn't reward that loop. And I really think I would be smoking today if I would have had that cigarette the morning after End Fest, because I have no impulse control. And as you know, Andrew, that's a tough one to quit.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, absolutely. I don't want to spill too much tea here, but there's somebody in my life who is a. I guess, especially by today's standards, I think you would describe her as a heavy smoker. And she had to go to the hospital for. And I think. And this is just. Just happened. Like, I think she was in there for almost a week, if not. If not totally a week. And I was texting with her, and she said, you know, I need A cigarette, really bad. But that was like, on day one or two. And in the back of my head, I was like, okay, this is good. Like, honestly, by the time you're out of there, like, the physics, I mean, know that there's still. I mean, listen, I was a smoker. I know it's really hard to kick the habit, but at least, like, you will be flushed of the physical. You know, the physical ramifications of needing a cigarette after that many days. And I was discouraged to see the very first photo she sent me when she's out of the hospital was her racing back home to enjoy that first cigarette. And I'm like, God damn it, man, you could have been so close if you could have. And again, I don't. I don't get preachy with people. I'm not in a position to get preachy with other people's habits. But it was a bummer. I was like, oh, I was hoping that you would maybe just try to parlay that. Just see if you could go a little bit further. Eat a carrot. God. Nothing makes you. Nothing makes you want to smoke a cigarette more than the idea of replacing it with a carrot. Talk about a misunderstanding of what is needed in this. Yeah, exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, my favorite fun fact that I've been boring everyone with lately, which is a fun fact that I've known for a while, is, you know Pez, the Pez candy dispensers that started off in Austria as a smoking replacement mint. So Pez. Pez is just a condensing of the German word for peppermint, which is like 74 letters long and involves a P, an E in the middle and a Z at the end. So they shortened it to Pez, and they were peppermint flavored mints that came in this little dispenser. And you were supposed to, like, when you wanted to have a cigarette, you're supposed to pop one of these mints instead. And they were a big hit in Europe.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do you know one of the funniest things I see is a listener when you were telling that story, I think I was reminiscing about how much I loved Pezes and a listener, and I'm sorry, I'm blanking on their name. Sent us a gift of Pez dispensers. And I think it was a four pack of Pez dispensers. And they were all Minecraft themed. And I know that I gave. I kept one myself. Whatever you call the little. Or maybe. Yeah, I don't know where it is right now, but the little black character. And then Genevieve kept the little green monster character. Then the other two I gave away to kids, I think just random kids on the street.

[John Sklarov]

You gave away mine and Luke's PEZ dispenser?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I think I gave your guys away.

[Luke Burbank]

But all that is to say, a real chicken jockey. Chicken jockey.

[Andrew Walsh]

Genevieve is still using hers. She went online somewhere and bought like a whole thing of PEZ candy. I mean, these were sent to us years ago. Okay. And Genevieve is still on the PEZ train. And here's what you're gonna love even more. She keeps them. So she's kind of got an old school style desk, right? But it's out in sort of our. It's in our basement. But she doesn't have a closed in office like I do. So it's sort of like her desk set up is sort of in the corner. And she's got kind of two screens. Cause Genevieve needs two screens. And she's got her phone charging. He's got all this stuff. And then she's got this drawer to her right. It's the top drawer, right where her right knee would be. And every now and then, if you time it right, you'll be walking by and you'll see her casually open that drawer and then she'll crack open the PEZ head. But the thing is, this is what's so amazing about it, and I absolutely love it, is she does. She doesn't take the candy out and then put it into her mouth. And she doesn't even bring the PEZ dispenser up to her mouth. She bends over towards the drawer and does it like she's taking a hit of snuff or something like that. There is something unbelievable. Like, I don't know if she feels like she needs to be clandestine about it or something, but there's something about seeing Genevieve open this drawer, like it seems very 1970s coded somehow, and just kind of put her face in the drawer, take a hit of pez, and then just come back up and finish her day's work.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, see, that goes to my ultimate point though, about the smoking stuff and why I've heard it so hard to kick is because unlike drinking, which is hopefully for most people, fairly contained to certain, like, social events and things that are going on. If you. My understanding is like, if you're a person who's a pretty regular smoker, it's your little treat throughout the day. It's your chance to step back from your desk. It's a chance maybe to stand outside and kind of chat it up with someone. It's like. And that's the part that's I've heard very hard to give up because it's like, you know, it's. You could just say, well, I'm not going to drink alcohol anymore. And when I'm at social settings I'm going to bring an NA beer or I'm going to have a seltzer or whatever. But the whole scheduling and ritual and the break that a cigarette provides beyond just the kind of physical experience of it is something I think people say is pretty hard.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Or you can avoid those social situations if need be. Like, well, hey, I'm not going to go to this thing that is trivia night at the bar or whatever it

[Luke Burbank]

happens to be now and forget about trying to quit smoking. Pez. Oh my God, that's the hardest addiction. Actually the Mayo Clinic just put out

[Andrew Walsh]

a white paper on it. She's got a little David Bowie mirror and she crushes them up and it's a whole problem.

[Luke Burbank]

What would happen if you snorted Pez? Probably just get a headache.

[John Sklarov]

Let's not encourage that.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, you're right.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, someone has an answer to that.

[Luke Burbank]

One to two children listening to the show. Hey, big weekend. Fourth of July plans, my guys. John, are you doing anything there in Minnesota?

[John Sklarov]

Yeah, we're actually. Tomorrow afternoon. I think we're gonna. Oh no, go ahead.

[Luke Burbank]

There it is.

[Andrew Walsh]

You got it.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[John Sklarov]

Oh, I didn't want to like step on the. Or maybe later. Take whatever Jess tells me we're gonna get in the car and drive down to her parents house. They live down the river.

[Luke Burbank]

Nice. On that pontoon boat.

[John Sklarov]

We're gonna throw the pups on the pontoon, take them swimming and just hang out and have a really good.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly what the founding fathers had in mind. I'm actually not kidding. That's good old fashioned American fun.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

How are the dogs getting along by the way?

[John Sklarov]

Great. Yeah, we're really, we're really fortunate. Manon and Benny are getting along really well and they get along with my in laws dogs.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, that's really good. They're going to be a romper. They're gonna be. Are you gonna be.

[Luke Burbank]

Are you pole sawing this weekend?

[Andrew Walsh]

I think so. I'll tell you what today Friday is. I guess so. You know, our group of friends here up in North Seattle, they do it or we. I guess we.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

We.

[Andrew Walsh]

They do a neighborhood walk that sort of like. It starts at Camaro, Kevin Anita's place and then they walk all the way Across Northgate to our place here. Then we go to our friend Katie's place. And they kind of have beverages along the way or whatever.

[Luke Burbank]

It's a great tradition.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think I did it the first time. And then I've participated in to varying degrees. Sometimes I'll join them halfway through. Sometimes I think last year I just skipped everything.

[Luke Burbank]

Drive alongside them and menace them.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, exactly. Just like you guys. Have you heard of cars? They're so convenient. Sometimes I just like to join them at the very end, like at Roden's house for some drinks and barbecue or something like that. So I really don't know. I will say I am feeling the pull of the pole saw. I still haven't started that big project in the backyard. But my problem is if I start that. I don't know if I already said this to you. Last weekend I really wanted to do that project, but I had evening plans again at the Rodents. And I was like, I know that if I start this heavy yard project, I can't just stop at 5 o' clock and clean or 4 o' clock and clean up and then go to a barbecue. Like these projects go into the evening as I'm cleaning up all of the debris and stripping the leaves off of the stick so that I can burn them. And I probably have a Mariners game to listen to while I'm like deep into the dusk lighting a fire and continuing to clean up the yard. So I don't know, it's going to be some combination of fun times and yard times.

[Luke Burbank]

I think I'm going camping down on the Oregon coast down in Manzanita with Becca and some friends. And I guess this is like 4th of July tradition that they've been doing for a long time. So got to break out the figure out if I even have any of the appropriate camping gear anymore. And yeah, that's the plan for us down.

[Andrew Walsh]

Where are you going to go to the bathroom, I think.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, probably in the sleeping bag.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, okay.

[Luke Burbank]

I just get a new one every time I go camping, you know.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is this like a camp? Is this like a campground that will have some sort of facilities?

[Luke Burbank]

Here's what I know about it. This is being organized and put on by some friends of ours and friends of Becca's who are. How do I put this? They are very put together folks. They have absolutely lovely home. They throw very elegant parties. They don't do anything sort of halfway. So my guess is that it's going to be. It's gonna be sort of glamping somehow, like when we. And they'll have already been there for a few days. So I think what I know about these people is that they really do it up and they always do things in a really kind of like nice manner. So I'm expecting that there will be a butler and somebody to do turn down service on my sleeping bag. Oh, don't, don't, don't smell in there. It's not good. No, no. I'm. I'm guessing that there probably are pretty adequate bathroom facilities. This is not in the woods. This is the Oregon coast. I'm kind of hoping that the campsite is somehow in view of the ocean. So it's more that vibe. Think Big Sur. More so than like, you know, the Boundary Waters or something where you're just, you know, in the woods. Although it has waters in the name. So I don't know why I picked that as an example. I was trying to regionalize it to John, trying to make this conversation interesting for John by picking a Minnesota reference. But I picked an area that also has a lot of water in it.

[John Sklarov]

So I've, I've hung out in the outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. I have like a vibe, a general vibe for it.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's like the Dells.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

You're getting Adele's or that. Did I make that joke a million times last year when we were actually in Wisconsin? I don't know, maybe.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hello and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, our top story today on this special 3rd of July, 4th of July show is that of course, TBT Elephant 17 is coming up in mere weeks. TBTLETHON17 Jumping for joy. We are going to be in Valley City, Ohio at the Valley City frog jump and at the former Liverpool Elementary School, Andrews actual. Have you found out, Andrew? I guess you won't know till you get there. We're not, as far as you understand, going to literally be in your classroom. We're going to be in the school you went to, but we don't know what room we're going to be in yet.

[Andrew Walsh]

We don't know what room because the school is now some sort of a community center. And I see that they have. I was kind of Google mapping and I see it looks like part of it is now some sort of a preschool maybe or at least was recently. So. But we talking to these two organizers who were calling the Dave's and they were telling us that we'll be in a conference room. Now I don't remember there being conference rooms when this was a school. So my guess is what is A conference room, but a converted classroom, you know, And I'm so. I'm not exactly sure. I mean, and it will probably.

[Luke Burbank]

As long as they haven't changed the urinal heights.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my goodness. I mean, that is what I every now.

[Luke Burbank]

It's the ultimate check in with your. With your elementary school move.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, the original urinals. I mean, it's funny you say that, because I do think about the urinals in that bathroom because they were the classic kind that went all the way to the floor up to the chest or whatever. And it's rare to see those. Those days. And so that is sort of a standout feature. And I think about where that water fountain was. Sorry, we don't have time to get into too much nostalgia today. But like, that's a huge thing. I keep thinking, I wonder if the water fountain is there. And of course it's not there. Like, we live in a post Covid world. And also, that water fountain was probably from 1965. It was old when I was there. Right. But remember what a big deal it was to go to the water fountain? You would find, like, you're talking about cigarette break, took water fountain breaks. You would line up with your classmates. You couldn't wait to get to that point of the day.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you have one of those? We had at Bagley? I mean, we had a variety of water fountains, but we had one of those that was like, I don't know, six. Like six water fountains. It was like a. You know what I mean?

[Andrew Walsh]

One device. No, I don't think I knew about it.

[Luke Burbank]

One device with like six water fountains on it. You guys never had those. That school that I went to was ancient. Bagley Elementary. I mean, I think it was like built in like 1910 or something. But then we would also do the move. Do you remember how the water fountain, at least the ones that we had. This is kind of hard to describe, but you have the metal part that is kind of a shield over the top of it for whatever reason. That kind of.

[John Sklarov]

So nobody puts her mouth on it. It's a shield so the kids don't go.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, I would still put my mouth on. I would just have to crank my neck in an odd angle because I'd be so thirsty from like recess. Right? You're running around, you're all thirsty. It's not putting out enough water fast enough. So I'm just like putting my mouth right on there. Pretty much. But then there was this weird little gap between where the water came out and then the Little part that focused the water that you could slide the skin of your hand in and you could constrict the water flow of the drinking fountain so that it would go way further than it was.

[Andrew Walsh]

People would stick paper in there as a prank. People would do it with our hands, but, like, you could leave it there, you know what I mean? And then next person goes to use it and it shoots up in their face like a 1920s film.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm totally gonna do that. When you go to your old elementary school, I'm pranking the hell out of those people.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, we'll see. I have a feeling it's gonna be somewhat unrecognizable in some ways. And as I've said before, there's the back part of the school that was ancient. Like, it was a tiny little country schoolhouse. And then they built it out a little bit more and sort of like. And we went to school often in the new wing when I was there, and we had some classes up in the old wing. And so the old wing, I don't even know if we're gonna have access to that. I'm working on the Dave's.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, we'll have access to it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Whether they want us to or not. So, yes, we will be in Valley City. And of course, one of the fun things about the TBTL A thon is that it's a chance for folks to call into the shows and also to chat it up with each other. While the shows are going on, we're live streaming them. And then we like to do like a Zoom event, some kind of a get together. And this year will be no exception. John, what can you tell us about the TBTL A thon Zoom Night?

[John Sklarov]

Well, thanks for asking, Luke. I'm really excited to share that the Zoom will be Wednesday evening, the 15th, and I believe we confirmed it's gonna be a 5pm Pacific, so that'd be 8pm East coast time.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Work it out if you're in the middle of the country.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

You're not new to this.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah. You know how time zones work. And then the whole idea behind the. The. The Zoom event, the reason to gather is we all know Andrew's favorite drug is nostalgia, and we will be in his hometown. And not to. Not to rely too heavily on Andrew's personal memories necessarily, but we want.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because they're disappearing.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, no, I'm trying to. I'm. I'm trying to retrieve some of them, so if we could. Actually, I'm gonna need a session with you later. Where do Some hypnosis, some late hypnosis.

[Andrew Walsh]

For some reason, I'm under the table.

[Luke Burbank]

Get some. Try to get some of those repressed memories back.

[John Sklarov]

But to.

[Andrew Walsh]

But.

[John Sklarov]

Well, Andrew aside, we want to hear you and your memories and like a show and tell. Right? So if like of trinkets or items or objects from your youth or, you know, it doesn't have to your youth, but from years back, something that's memorable or meaningful to you, we'd love for you to come to the Zoom event and show it off and tell us what it's about. And I think we talk about it, guys, whenever we plan these things. It's just like a reason to hang out with the tens and like, this is just the thing behind that. So.

[Andrew Walsh]

So I'm going to be staying with my parents one night when I'm in town before you guys arrive. And I know that my folks have a little attic. Little like you have to get a ladder out. I think it's in the garage. It doesn't matter where it is. But I just wanted to let you know. And I believe I have one box of my old belongings up there still. Like, I've been kind of, you know, as nostalgic as I am, I don't save a lot of things from my childhood. But there is like one box up there, I believe, maybe some related to my Boy Scout service or something. So I'm gonna go through that.

[Luke Burbank]

Thank you for your service.

[Andrew Walsh]

I appreciate it. I do get to board the plane first. Yeah. So anyway, I'm gonna go through that box or maybe look, go through my dad, Go through my dad's office and grab some OJ of my youth, and I will bring that. And so that's the type of thing we're looking for, something that you've held onto for a long, long time since you were a kid. And here you are, an adult. If you are a kid who is joining, maybe just grab something that you're enjoying right now.

[Luke Burbank]

Absolutely.

[Andrew Walsh]

But you know, that type of ST stuff we're showing off, that kind of

[Luke Burbank]

stuff that you might not even know why you've held onto it. You know what I mean? It's just kind of like it's made the move with you multiple times for some reason, you just kind of can't part with it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And yeah, we just want to see those objects and talk about them and hear the story. And like you said, John, just mostly an excuse for us to all get together and chop it up on a Wednesday night.

[John Sklarov]

And if you don't have anything to share or you feel uncomfortable getting on the Zoom. We'd love you to be there. Anyway, the chat function will be open. Like we'll be hanging out. Just like come hang out, hang out with your friends.

[Luke Burbank]

Cameras on, cameras off. Whatever you want, whatever you feel comfortable with.

[Andrew Walsh]

Jort. No jorts.

[John Sklarov]

That one.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm gonna draw the line.

[Andrew Walsh]

Only Jorts. Oops. All jorts.

[John Sklarov]

Oops.

[Luke Burbank]

That could be a show title, I guess here on this third of July show. Yeah, so it's gonna be Wednesday. That Wednesday night. And so mark your calendars and. And we will see you there.

[John Sklarov]

And also as with these in the past, you have to register. So just so it's. It's free to do. It's just so you get the link. So like to join us. So when you're hearing this episode today, there will be a button, Andrew, right at the top of our [e-mail] there'll be a link to the registration form on Zoom. Super simple. Take you two minutes. Not even to sign up. Just so you have, like I said, the link and that way you'll get the email reminders too.

[Luke Burbank]

Throw in social mother's maiden name.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly what I was going to say. Simple, simple questions. No problem.

[Luke Burbank]

Because we want this to be childhood pet. No. And also because it's thon time, of course we have some thank you gifts that we would like to thank the donors with. And I will say that more than I was anticipating, and again, I did the least of this of the three of us, but more than I was anticipating, there was a significant amount of work and coordinating and logistics that went into. I'm thinking of one of the thank you gifts in particular, which I know we're all pretty geeked up about how it all turned out, but the announcement of the TBTLathon gifts, the way that this news is first going to break is going to be in the TBTL newsletter.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right. Sign up for the TBTL Newsletter. By the way, as we're speaking today, on Friday. There won't be a newsletter today because the holiday of it all. But next week the newsletter is back in action and it will be the only way you will learn what we are giving away. And not to. You know, I'm not a good carnival barker here, but we are psyched. Like some of the art, the art that goes into a couple of these things has been really amazing. I'm thinking of a couple of things in particular. I want to say more. I'm trying very hard not to, but I'm not just building this up. This is a memorable one. So make sure you sign up for the newsletter. If you're not already signed up for it, go to tbtl.net, just click the newsletter button and next Friday all will be revealed in your inbox.

[Luke Burbank]

And the thing about the newsletter, I have to say Andrew, cause I'm a subscriber every time I look at it. First of all, you are such a good writer and I mean I know that it's like Thursday comes and you're just like oh man, what am I gonna write about this week? I think you always come up with a great concept for it. It's also just very useful because it's got a link to every show from the week. It's got information about them. There's a 10 of the week in there. There's, there's links to things. It's actually just like a really great little Friday kind of digest of everything TBTL that happened in the previous week. And if there was something that you were trying to remember or like I said, a link to whatever, it's like it's all there. It's a really useful little compendium.

[Andrew Walsh]

Last week there was a photo of me in shorts standing in front of my hedge.

[Luke Burbank]

But he doesn't do that a lot. I'm trying to sell this thing.

[John Sklarov]

Well, here you go Luke. I'm also a big fan of the new. The addition of the moment of Lucy that Andrew's been doing a little adorable little Lucy photo every week. That helps too.

[Andrew Walsh]

Absolutely.

[Luke Burbank]

That's been a great addition.

[John Sklarov]

That contradicts the shorts photo I think.

[Luke Burbank]

Although he has Lucy in shorts and I don't think consented to that.

[Andrew Walsh]

I saw a little dog in diapers. I was driving down Roosevelt yesterday and I had to stop. You know how like in Seattle not every cross, like not every intersection has a crosswalk but there's an implied crosswalk especially in like the high traffic, the high foot traffic areas. And so there was somebody trying to cross kind of this busy, the one way road I used to live on. And so I like stopped and let her cross and her little like, I don't know, it wasn't a poodle but it was some sort of curly haired dog just trotting away with its little diaper on. So there's a, our old vet is right around there too. So I'm assuming that maybe they were just done with a visit to the vet. But I gotta say it was pretty cute and I started thinking about it. Cause like there's Something comical about that. Right. But then you're kinda like. But I mean, obviously the dog needs it. And it's like the dog doesn't feel undignified. The dog's just taking care of what needs to be taken care of.

[Luke Burbank]

Of. Yeah.

[John Sklarov]

Andrew, you'll likely be dealing with that at some point. Soon as we as well us with Manon and Lucy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Because they met me personally, I was like, dude, in the future.

[John Sklarov]

Well, female dogs, before you spay them when they go through their cycles, before they go into, you know. And like you typically like 18 months to two years is be. When you want to spay them. So like all their hormones.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

What? Oh, I.

[Andrew Walsh]

We were, we were told nine months. I thought we were getting a lot. I. I think I heard it was. I thought you tried to get it before the. Well, whatever.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, you can't be too far before because it does. Then their body doesn't go through.

[John Sklarov]

That's what I'm saying. The horrible.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, they need to kind of, in fact, some people say let them go through heat one time.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

To be really super sure.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, I thought you were supposed to do it before they go into heat. Well, I thought you were supposed to do it at home and I thought you were supposed to do it at home.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, yes, and live stream it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Livestream. I may have gotten some bad information. I'll double check.

[Luke Burbank]

Speaking of bad information, Andrew, you just mentioned that kind of implied crosswalk thing. I grew up in Seattle and that's how I think of streets and intersections. That's a dangerous thing to learn when you move to other cities. Because the number of times that I've been in a city and lived in a city that's not Seattle, where that's not really the move, that's not really how people operate. And I'm stepping out into the road and almost getting hit because I'm like, I come from the land of like high, high deference being given to the pedestrian. That's like, that's a big Seattle thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

And it's also dangerous if you're new to Seattle and you don't realize that it's dangerous for everybody involved if you're not, if you're not stopping the way, you know, other cars might.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, absolutely. One other thing about this thon that's coming up, of course, is that we are going to be there sort of, I guess you could say, as part of the 60, the fifth, I believe, annual Valley City frog jump. Did you as a kid, Andrew, did

[Andrew Walsh]

you go to this frog jump? No, I'D never been to it. I've never been to it. I went to the Valley City Street Fair sometimes, but not the frog jump.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, so this will be a first for all three of us, and we are going to be entering a frog in the competition. We had our friend Simeon last week, who was our Frog Watch USA guy was telling us the kind of frog to look for and how to take care of the frog so that the frog is, you know, as happy as can be, etc. And we've also been taking in submissions for frog names. I. I've heard that Rosie the Ribiter is now maybe off the list because it's been used at the Calaveras county frog jump in Calaveras, California, which is of course famous for the Mark Twain story. What was the other one that we. We liked? I liked Mr. Frog Dobilina.

[John Sklarov]

We like that. We also liked Jackie Jorp jump.

[Andrew Walsh]

That was one of our favorites.

[Luke Burbank]

That was good.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now, it could be Jackie Jort jump, but okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Jackie Jordjump.

[John Sklarov]

Leap Day William. That was one that you gave.

[Luke Burbank]

Luke Spark tried to explain Leap Day William to somebody who doesn't watch 30 Rock. And let me tell you, that's a big waste of time.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can we slow down for one second? Because the sneaking into the canon of Leap Day William. Is it William or Williams, by the way? Let's get this.

[Luke Burbank]

I think it's William.

[Andrew Walsh]

William is the character.

[Luke Burbank]

Leap Day character.

[Andrew Walsh]

You're gonna. Yeah, it's gotta be. You're gonna catch me saying Williams sometimes. I don't know why, but that happened off air. Last week we got in with the

[Luke Burbank]

show and I just.

[Andrew Walsh]

And Luke said, hey, by the way, I have an idea that I really like.

[John Sklarov]

That's.

[Andrew Walsh]

And you mentioned it was. You're like, we gotta talk about it. Leap Day William. That's really good. But then we. Since you said that, Luke, I saw at least one listener email me. I don't know if they emailed you as well, John actually submitting that. So you kind of got like a. In.

[Luke Burbank]

Was it Colin Jost?

[John Sklarov]

It was listener Chris.

[Andrew Walsh]

So, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

The subway take of Colin Jost.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

So that's, I guess, on the board, if you will. Leap Day William. What other ones are you seeing, John?

[John Sklarov]

Yes, we got some really good ones this week. A couple from our listener David. Too beautiful to leap. I thought that was kind of cute

[Luke Burbank]

or that's pretty clever.

[John Sklarov]

David also said beautiful leaper. I thought that was kind of cute.

[Luke Burbank]

Like as in beautiful dress, dreamer, beautiful leaper, Beautiful dreamer.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't Know I'm lost on I'm the beautiful leaper is the.

[Luke Burbank]

There's a song called Beautiful Dreamer. That's what I'm assuming that that's a reference to, but also with, you know, too beautiful to live.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, Do a leaper.

[John Sklarov]

I'm writing that. I'm writing that down. Patrick. Listener Patrick in California sent in frog doubt about it.

[Luke Burbank]

It's like, frog, frog doubt about it. Okay.

[John Sklarov]

Or the frog of war, which I

[Andrew Walsh]

thought was pretty funny. It's intense, but I like that.

[Luke Burbank]

That's pretty good.

[John Sklarov]

We want to scare the other frogs.

[Luke Burbank]

Nobody's gonna mess with us if our frog is called the frog of war.

[John Sklarov]

Listener Anna sent in Kenny Froggins you guys were talking about recently. So that's pretty good.

[Andrew Walsh]

Froggins in missing.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, that's also great.

[John Sklarov]

Lister Chris was the one who sent in Leap Day William. And then also Chris sent in I say. I say, what up, frog? Which I think we got that submission before. And then also this one just. I don't know how much the pun works, but I laughed at ladies frog for ladies. I think I'm trying to.

[Luke Burbank]

Ladies frog is ladies frog.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah, yeah, sorry, I butchered the accent.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, that's great.

[Luke Burbank]

That's pretty good.

[John Sklarov]

Laurel sent in two really good ones. Also. Temple of the Frog, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, nice.

[John Sklarov]

But. But going back to the Mariners bits, Randy Arosa Ribbit.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, that's pretty good.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's pretty good.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[John Sklarov]

And even. Even I love Randy as a player, as a person, so, I mean, I could get on board with that. Eric sent in Jump man. Jump, Man.

[Luke Burbank]

Them boys be jumping.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I think I need a Robitussin.

[Andrew Walsh]

Love that.

[John Sklarov]

Jeff sent in Doogie Bouncer.

[Luke Burbank]

Bouncer, which is really good.

[John Sklarov]

I could, like, I just immediately hear the. The emails of emails. Music.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel like that frog is going to be a nerd, though.

[Andrew Walsh]

What?

[John Sklarov]

Or a genius. I mean.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, but this isn't a frog genius competition. This is a frog jump competition.

[John Sklarov]

Okay. Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Next year, we're entering our frog in the frog spelling bee.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[John Sklarov]

And then we can name him Doogie Bouncer.

[Luke Burbank]

Can I have the nation of origin? Ribbit. Ribbit.

[John Sklarov]

Listener Dan down in Miami also said, jump, man. Jump, man.

[Luke Burbank]

That's great.

[John Sklarov]

That's a good one. This is a real obvious one that I don't know if anyone else submitted it, but it's a great one. Missy said pod frog. Well, like the pod dog, Right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Pod frog.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, Missy. Oh, I thought. I thought the entire title was.

[John Sklarov]

Oh, sorry.

[Luke Burbank]

Said I was like, I don't understand the reference. So pod frog.

[John Sklarov]

Pod frog, pod frame frog.

[Luke Burbank]

Gotcha.

[John Sklarov]

These listener Levi. I, I, I. This is a Maya culpa. I read a bunch of Levi sent in last week and then he made a comment on the Stents Facebook page about a few of them being overlooked. So I apologize. Levi. Levi also sent in Flash and Lily. Lily. Really good Lily pad kind of thing. Oh, that could work. Also, this is just an update from one last week. We got Santos L. Hopper and we're all kind of look a little confused by that one. Haley in Arizona sent that in and on Facebook pointed out that's a Simpsons reference where there's mail sent to Santa's Little Helper or Santa's. Santa's little Hopper Simpson dress. So that was a ref.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So so, but what's the Santos part?

[John Sklarov]

No, sorry, that's what the. It was Santos Hopper or must have

[Andrew Walsh]

been the so okay, let me, let me back this up for a second.

[Luke Burbank]

Santa's Little Helper on the Simpsons.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right. And then somebody tries to send him an envelope through the mail and they get the name wrong somehow. And on the end this is a deep cut. People were send screen grabs of mail arriving at the Simpsons house and it's addressed to Santos El Hopper. Is that right?

[John Sklarov]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Or something along the lines of that. Yeah.

[John Sklarov]

So I just wanted.

[Andrew Walsh]

So it's crazy that we didn't get that. Yeah, I, I was like.

[John Sklarov]

Well, I at least like put it back out there. Also, my bad. Who? Our friend Lynn. Lynn's email hit my spam for whatever

[Luke Burbank]

reason, which is ridiculously apologized. Yeah. No goal.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah, Lynn sent in a really good one. Surprise. It's RBTL but pronounced ribbit. L. Ribitol.

[Luke Burbank]

Rbtl.

[John Sklarov]

But they pronounced like ribal Rib.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I like that.

[John Sklarov]

Marion sent in. I don't know if this will a listener. Marion.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm wondering. I have a niece named Marion, but

[John Sklarov]

maybe we have a couple of Marians sentence. I don't know if this will fly in Valley City, Ohio. Amphifa. Like amphibian, but amphibian antifa.

[Andrew Walsh]

I've been to some of their meetings.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I bet you have.

[John Sklarov]

Don't say that on on podcast. The Justice Department.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that's right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Definitely.

[John Sklarov]

But that was like in reference to the protest frogs at the. That was one at the reflecting pool. Yeah, that was pretty good. All right, here we go. There's only a few more from this. A couple more that came in this last week. Josh sent in long legged Lar.

[Luke Burbank]

Larry like lounge like Larry, which I

[John Sklarov]

think I saw somebody on Sense Page or Slack. Say today's the day. Is that right? Or is. Yes. Or is yesterday the anniversary of Lawn Chair Larry?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know. We always get. We get birthday, you know, blurs day

[Luke Burbank]

a couple months ago.

[Andrew Walsh]

But maybe today's the day that he actually took flight or something. I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, every year a couple of listeners have it marked on their calendar or whatever the anniversary of it is. And every year I forget that we're coming up on it. And then Andrew sneaks in the blurs day messages and I'm, I'm always.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't sneak it in. The listeners send it in. But the difference is listeners are sending a birthday wishes for Lawn chair Larry on his actual birthday, which is not the same day that he actually took flight. And he took flight on July 2nd of 1982. So yesterday would have been a couple of days ago. Yeah, okay.

[John Sklarov]

Sorry.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right. Yesterday.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah. I got my days Fuse days. Okay, now this is the last one I have and I think this might be a winner just because the conversations recently. Ian. A listener. Ian sent in early Hopland. Like your, your favorite.

[Luke Burbank]

Erling Holland. The. Yeah, that was Soccer player.

[John Sklarov]

I thought that was really good.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sounds like a winning name.

[Luke Burbank]

Certainly we're going to have to find a frog that's six, eight with long blonde hair.

[Andrew Walsh]

God, I'm already having bad dreams. Please don't put that into my nightscape.

[Luke Burbank]

We have a. Just a absolute Chimera. Freakish six foot tall frog. Walk it out there. Half man, half frog.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, so I'm pretty proud if I did.

[John Sklarov]

No, I love that one. I. I'm keeping that on the list.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's.

[John Sklarov]

Don't. As the keeper of the list. That is a favorite on the list right now.

[Luke Burbank]

Chimera, mythological monster.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nice. Oh yeah, I can cut.

[Luke Burbank]

Is it ch's both a. Yeah. It's like, you know, sometimes it'll be like, like a, like a lion with like a dragon tail or you know, any, any kind of like thing that's a combination of different.

[Andrew Walsh]

Badass.

[John Sklarov]

A griffin.

[Luke Burbank]

Griffin would probably be a Chimera.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

All right. Those are kind of promising. I'm. I'm trying to think where I'm still. I mean I still.

[Andrew Walsh]

Jack jump is still pretty so good.

[Luke Burbank]

Pretty high on my list.

[Andrew Walsh]

I love it. I mean those two of our favorite ones come from 30 Rock. I guess there's. I guess that's not a huge surprise.

[Luke Burbank]

If we could just work Mickey Rourke in.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, wait, hold on.

[John Sklarov]

Can we.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, now, now I'm getting some Ideas.

[Unidentified Guest or Listener]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

Gosh, I'm having. I'm having trouble turning either one of those names into a pun, though. Well, we have time.

[Luke Burbank]

You've got all 4th of July weekend while you're working the pole saw, Andrew. While you're working the pole. Think about this.

[Andrew Walsh]

My folks did not want me to grow up to be working that pole saw, but here we are.

[Luke Burbank]

But you know know it's keep my

[Andrew Walsh]

boy off the pole.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. All right, well, listen, that's. I think that's probably all we need to get to today on this Friday edition of the program. And we've got holiday weekend recreating to get to, so we better start that as soon as possible. Thanks for listening this week, everybody. Thanks for spending the time with us. We're going to be back here on Monday with more imaginary Radio 2. The last Monday before the TBTL.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, it's. It's happening so soon.

[John Sklarov]

Yeah, it's coming up quick.

[Luke Burbank]

I just saw, just saw like a, A, a panicked look in Andrew's eyes when I said the last Monday before the tvt.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm feeling better. I spent a long time yesterday relearning how to stream.

[Luke Burbank]

Thank you for doing that, by the way. I can always tell when you, like, when you start to like, gone into the dojo of Thon. You're just like sending these emails like, okay, this still works and here's how we do it. And I'm like, I can just picture you down there just like checking things off.

[Andrew Walsh]

I got frog. Frog cam was live briefly. There's no frog.

[Luke Burbank]

There will be a frog.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

When we do the Thawne. So all right, again, thanks for listening. Excuse me. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll be back here on Monday. In the meantime, have a great holiday weekend. Take care of yourselves. Keep those fireworks away from the pets, please. And please remember, no mountain too tall.

[Andrew Walsh]

And good luck to all.

[John Sklarov]

Power out.