#4773 A Date With Deskiny

Summary

TBTL #4773: "A Date With Deskiny" (July 17, 2026)
Hosts: Luke Burbank & Andrew Walsh
Summary by [Podcast Summarizer AI]

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Episode Overview

In this lively Friday episode, Luke and Andrew host the last broadcast of the TBTL-a-thon fundraising week from Valley City, Ohio, at the Liverpool Township Community Center—home of the annual Frog Jump Festival. The show is packed with playful banter, reflections on community, listener call-ins, food adventures, and musings on everything from lettuce recalls to the quirks of daylight saving time. The duo celebrates the TBTL community (the "Tens") and cherishes connections, nostalgia, and the idiosyncratic magic that makes the show and its audience so unique.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. TBTL-a-thon Finale & Frog Jump Festival

• The week wraps up with the show being broadcast live from the festival headquarters.
• The hosts give health updates on their adopted frogs (all named Dave) and look forward to the big Frog Jump contest.
• [02:28] “We are in good shape to bring you this final day of TBTLathon17 Jumping for Joy." (Luke)
• [02:56] "They’re moving around in their little terrarium. And I guess we’ll figure out which one’s going to actually take the big jump on Sunday.” (Luke)

2. Question of the Day: Bathroom Emergencies

• Inspired by a national outbreak linked to Taco Bell lettuce, the show’s phone-in prompt is humorously blunt: "When was the last time you shit your pants?"
• Andrew expresses regret at not pre-approving the topic, while Luke makes the case for the storytelling potential of “uncomfortable bathroom situations.”
• [04:42] “When was the last time you shit your picture?” (Luke, misspeaking, but leaning into the joke)
• [05:00] “It’s almost what this very show is built upon…” (Luke)
• [05:18] “I wonder how many people have that story… For a lot of lucky people, it would be so far in the past that they wouldn’t remember.” (Andrew)

3. Local Eats: Gandalf’s, DoorDash, Food Tales

• The hosts rave about their meal at Gandalf’s restaurant in Valley City, singling out the Reuben, fish sandwich, and particularly the Irish box tea (potato pancake).
• Nostalgic recounting of musical ambiance and the restaurant’s namesake: Gandalf the Dog.
• [07:36] “There was Jeff Tweedy on there, a little Bob Dylan, some Grateful Dead… Whatever the algorithm was, it was wonderful.” (Luke)
• Amusing detour about failed late-night DoorDash frosties and “under-nugged” delivery, debating whether missing items are clerical or driver snafus.
• They sympathize with gig workers but poke fun at their own laziness (ordering from a nearby Wendy’s they could see from their Airbnb).

4. The Taco Bell Lettuce Outbreak & Produce Washing Routines

• Luke details the cyclospiriasis outbreak traced to Taylor Farms lettuce in multiple states’ Taco Bells.
• The hosts then launch a surprisingly thorough discussion of how they wash lettuce, fruit, and salad ingredients:
  • Techniques: Salad spinner, cutting styles, soaking berries in colored bowls to reveal the hidden dirt (“You have to let these fruits soak.” — Andrew, [21:26])
  • Commentary on single-use plastics and "bagged" lettuce aversion.
  • Love for romaine lettuce and knife-sharpening side-stories.
• [15:47] “I am a complete romaine fanatic.” (Luke)
• [17:03] “If I’m, you know, putting it in a salad, I like to see how thinly I can chop this romaine.” (Luke)

5. Listener Call-Ins & Community Vibes

a. Sherry in Port Townsend:

• Sherry calls to divert from toilet humor; proposes stories about meeting fellow TBTL “Tens.”
• Shares her perspective as a colon cancer survivor—bathroom talk is “part of her life," but not always for laughs.
• Conversation meanders to dogs, nostalgia for Port Townsend, and the TBTL community's connections.
• [24:40] “Well, I don’t want to get into it. I’m a colon cancer survivor… Poop talk is kind of part of my life.” (Sherry)
• Advocates to host a future TBTL-a-thon in Port Townsend.
• Discussion about being a “Luddite”: landlines, library DVDs, reliance on podcasts for entertainment.
• [31:16] “We are total podcast addicts… There is not enough hours in the day for each of us to listen to all of our podcasts.” (Sherry)

b. Callers reminisce on connections between “Tens”

• Prompted by Sherry and Alicia (just outside Boston), listeners share stories of support, like coordinating rides during flight delays, and pilot Will offering inside info on a bizarre rerouted flight.
• [54:26] “It was just such a lovely connection to the community and people I’d never met when I was in this moment of just feeling not only lonely but just sort of in the midst of this ridiculousness.” (Alicia)

6. Reflections on the TBTL Community & Fundraising

• The hosts iterate on the unique TBTL donor relationship—eschewing traditional “close-the-deal” tactics in favor of gratitude and transparency.

• [33:39] "We just want to say thank you… as important as it is for us to raise the revenue, it’s just nice to be in the same room and bask in the glow of the TBTL community." (Luke)

• Heartfelt emails from listeners are read, stories of long-time listening, the impact of TBTL on their lives, and spreading the “Tenhood.”

  • Madeline, a listener since age ten, describes how TBTL helped her through injury recovery. [57:06]
  • Jared credits his partner Bree for turning him into a 10. [58:40]

• The group debates whether “dank nugs” donations will be accepted (jokingly) and phone etiquette for future meetups.

7. Daylight Saving Time: Should We Abolish The Clock Switch?

• Listeners and hosts dissect the proposed Sunshine Protection Act (moving to permanent daylight saving time).
• Arguments for and against: more evening light ("selfishly motivated" — Luke), morning darkness and kid safety, the “pain” of time changes.
• [44:35] “I don’t have a very strong opinion about this, but the appeal to me is actually just the cessation of switching.” (Andrew)
• Thoughts on regional quirks (Arizona, Indiana), and nostalgia for 80s TV schedule caveats (“8/7 Central!”).

8. Wistful Endings & Nostalgia

• Andrew, broadcasting from his childhood school, is overcome with nostalgia and gratitude.
• Relishes the unchanged relics from his elementary days and the rare full-circle experience.
• [65:55] “I thought I’d never be here again, but now here I am with a key… So I’m trying to just drink up the nostalgia one last time.” (Andrew)

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Notable Quotes & Moments (by Timestamp)

• [02:28] Luke: "We are in good shape to bring you this final day of TBTLathon17 Jumping for Joy."
• [06:06] Andrew: "Honestly, one of the better Reubens I’ve maybe ever had… the ratio of meat to cheese to other toppings was perfect."
• [07:36] Luke: “There was Jeff Tweedy on there, a little Bob Dylan, some Grateful Dead… Whatever the algorithm was, it was wonderful.”
• [15:47] Luke: “I am a complete romaine fanatic.”
• [21:26] Andrew: “You have to let these fruits soak.”
• [24:40] Sherry: “Well, I don’t want to get into it. I’m a colon cancer survivor… Poop talk is kind of part of my life.”
• [31:16] Sherry: “We are total podcast addicts… There is not enough hours in the day for each of us to listen to all of our podcasts.”
• [33:39] Luke: "We just want to say thank you...it’s just nice to be in the same room and bask in the glow of the TBTL community."
• [44:35] Andrew: “I don’t have a very strong opinion about this, but the appeal to me is actually just the cessation of switching.”
• [54:26] Alicia: "It was just such a lovely connection to the community and people I’d never met when I was in this moment of just feeling...in the midst of this ridiculousness."
• [57:06] Madeline (email): “I was 10 years old and I would look forward to going to bed each night to listen on my clock radio… I’m so grateful TBTL was there to keep me company.”
• [65:55] Andrew: “I thought I’d never be here again, but now here I am with a key… So I’m just trying to drink up the nostalgia one last time.”

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Highlighted Listeners & Community Connections

• Sherry (Port Townsend): Advocates for positive stories, shares how being a cancer survivor colors her view of bathroom humor, pushes for a future TBTL-a-thon in Port Townsend.
• Alicia (Boston): Tells a wild rerouted flight story, with TBTL “Tens” coming through for support and connection.
• Madeline: Lifelong listener since childhood; describes TBTL as critical for companionship and healing.
• Jared & Bree: Couple where 10hood is joyfully contagious.
• Scott: Listens from his workplace pot shop, underlines the fear of losing TBTL companionship.

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Tone & Style Notes

The episode is quintessential TBTL: tangents abound, the mood is playful, self-deprecating, rambling, and warm. Luke and Andrew gently roast themselves, each other, and the oddities of daily life, while celebrating listener stories and the enduring bonds of their unconventional podcast family.

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Important Timestamps for Content Segments

• [02:04] Start of TBTL-a-thon 17 coverage; frog/Dave update
• [03:34] Introduction of “last time you pants” question
• [06:01] Valley City eats: Gandalf’s Restaurant review
• [09:00] DoorDash, fast food, and gig economy riff
• [15:03] Produce washing and salad protocol
• [23:01] Listener call: Sherry, Port Townsend (colon cancer and poop talk)
• [31:01] Sherry on being a podcast-first household
• [33:39] Fundraising reflections and thanks to donors
• [44:35] Pros/cons of permanent daylight saving time
• [49:20] Alicia’s “Tens” and airline misadventures
• [56:54] Listener emails of gratitude and long-term listenership
• [65:55] Andrew’s nostalgia trip at his childhood school

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Final Thoughts

This TBTL episode is an affectionate, slightly chaotic tapestry of community inside jokes, listener appreciation, and offbeat storytelling. Whether celebrating the health of “the Daves,” recalling the specifics of lettuce washing, or fielding heartfelt calls from long-time “Tens,” Luke, Andrew, and their listeners remind us that the real content is the community they’ve built together—one frog jump, one inside joke, and one salad spinner at a time.

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Power Out.

Transcript

[Narrator]

Some slimy jelly like stuff with black specks inside. That's what Steve has found in the water this April morning. What are those little black specks? They're alive. They'll take them home to show dad. Dad will probably know what they are. The boys have found some frog eggs. Some of them are hatching. Jimmy thinks of the tadpoles as his pets. He's picked out a large one and given it a name. Tad. One day, about a week after leaving the water, Tad has become an adult frog. Dad thinks the boys should take the frogs back to the pond. But Steve would like to keep Tad. Well, all right, the boys can keep Tad, but the rest will have to go. The boys will put them in the jar and take them back to the pond.

[Luke Burbank]

TBTL

[Andrew Walsh]

Guess what day it is Guess

[John Skloroff]

what day it is It's Friday, Friday

[Andrew Walsh]

Gonna get down on Friday Everybody's looking forward to the weekend.

[Sherry]

All your honors. And at this time, I'd like to present a compilation of general misjudgments. Half of them fear based, half of them just stupid.

[Luke Burbank]

If we wanted to, we could have our own business.

[Caller Alicia]

No, I agree. If we really wanted to, we could.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's just that.

[Caller Alicia]

Do we wanna do that? Do we wanna have a website and a blog and be like, this is

[Sherry]

what we did today?

[Luke Burbank]

No, it's too much work.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Sherry]

And too expensive.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I'm not feeling too hot. So how many hot dogs you have for lunch?

[John Skloroff]

3.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, there's your problem. You're starving. Your body's literally eating itself. Let me see if I have any emergency dogs on my. I love these guys. They make funny with their mouth. All right. Hello, good morning and welcome, everyone to a Friday edition of tbtl, the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

[Andrew Walsh]

Cleveland, this is for you.

[Luke Burbank]

My name's Luke Burbank. I'm your host.

[Andrew Walsh]

In short, things are going extremely well

[Luke Burbank]

for him coming to you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Aw.

[Luke Burbank]

For the final day from beautiful Valley City, Ohio, the Liverpool Township Community center, where we are still dealing with a lot of smoke in the skies.

[Narrator]

I'm ready to smoke the world with the rock and roll. Good deal.

[Luke Burbank]

But luckily we are well air conditioned here in the classroom, thanks to our friends here at the community center who've been taking great care of us. And we are in good shape to bring you this final day of TBTLathon17 Jumping for Joy. Of course, we're here as part of the Valley City, Ohio Frog Jump Festival. Rabbit. Rabbit. The Dave's are doing well, by the way. I can report all three Daves. We got eyes on them this morning.

[Andrew Walsh]

Dave, Dave, Dave.

[Luke Burbank]

They are, they're looking hale, they're looking hardy, they're moving around in their little terrarium. And I guess we'll figure out which one of them is going to actually take the big jump on Sunday. By the way, we're at episode 4773 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. We are taking your phone calls today. Last chance to give us a call at 206-414-TBTL, 206-414-8285 Ahoy Hoi. They have figured out the source of the explosive diarrhea outbreak in America.

[Andrew Walsh]

The combustion becomes an explosion.

[Luke Burbank]

We will tell you about that. And that also gives us the inspiration for our question of the day for the callers. If you want to call in and answer this question, when was the last time you your pants been a while? 206-414-TBTL 206-414-8285 I did not run the question of the day by the longest running cobra of the program. Maybe best known for his tall ships and his depictions of the tall ships and his dislike for that particular topic. He's Andrew Walsh. As Jay would say, he's got flow and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend Luke and I had a very.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good morning, Luke. Good afternoon. Luke and I had a very mature conversation before the show about tbtl. It was a production meeting. We were talking about how we really liked this idea of having more specific questions to ask you guys to call in with. Yesterday we asked you to call in with stories about people named Dave in your life.

[Luke Burbank]

Dave's in your life.

[Andrew Walsh]

That worked out really well. And I said, oh, yeah, well, what should today's question be? And you said, I already have one. And I didn't follow up.

[Luke Burbank]

When was the last time you shit your picture?

[Andrew Walsh]

I didn't follow up and say, what is it? Because I was like, oh, it'll be fun to find out on the show. And I learned a valuable lesson. From now on, we ask the follow up questions off air. You really want people to call in?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I mean it's, it's, people have those stories. I'll be honest with you. It's compelling.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is compelling.

[Luke Burbank]

It's compelling. It's, it's almost what this very show is built upon as we rolled out the TBTL greatest hits vinyl album last year. So I mean, without being coarse, without being unnecessarily crass, I do think it is a story that is Quite fascinating.

[Andrew Walsh]

I suppose so. I wonder how many people have that story. I think for a lot of lucky people, it would be so far in the past that they wouldn't have a memory of it. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And you know what? Let me sort of clarify. It doesn't even have to be a story of when you actually had a bathroom situation occur outside of the bathroom. It could just be a time when you had to go real bad and it was uncomfortable.

[Andrew Walsh]

How do you feel that our hosts feel about us starting the show today with this? On Friday, the last day of our thon. There's been a lot of goodwill. There was some ill will regarding some things I said about a local eatery.

[Luke Burbank]

No, shall not.

[Andrew Walsh]

But then we replaced that with goodwill when we went to that local eatery yesterday.

[Luke Burbank]

By the way, that place, Gandalf's here in Valley City, Ohio, cannot recommend it highly enough.

[Andrew Walsh]

It was so good. I had a Reuben that was really, really tasty, actually. Honestly, one of the better Reubens I've maybe have ever had as far as like the, the, like the. The ratio of meat to cheese to other toppings and stuff. It was perfect. And I didn't do any mods on it. Did you notice that?

[Luke Burbank]

I did. I was proud of you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. You ordered like a big boy right off the. Right off the menu.

[Luke Burbank]

It was in fact, not too early for me to get.

[Andrew Walsh]

Is it too early for. You got a fish sandwich.

[Luke Burbank]

It looks like this fish sandwich. Our friend John Skloroff is here, by the way. TBTL employee numero uno. Isn't he the best? And you got something called a boxy.

[John Skloroff]

A box tea. Boxy, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Irish. It was an official Irish.

[John Skloroff]

It wasn't a sandwich, but yeah, it was a salmon filet.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yeah.

[John Skloroff]

On top of this potato pancake. In my culture that's a latke. But, but, but they called it a boxy or a boxy box tea. Yeah, it was delicious.

[Luke Burbank]

It really was. The place was immaculate. The staff was great. They had pull tabs, which we enjoyed. And we didn't enjoy any winning, I wouldn't say.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I mean I enjoyed pulling them. I didn't get the experience. Winning money. Do you think any of them are winners?

[Luke Burbank]

Not the ones that I pulled. I still owe you $20 for that, by the way. I gotta stop getting that. You gotta stop reminding. Stop remembering that people.

[Andrew Walsh]

If you ever want to borrow money from sandwich, borrow from me because I

[Luke Burbank]

forget he is the guy. By the way, you have to borrow money from.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, goldfish.

[Luke Burbank]

But the food was great. The Music was awesome.

[Andrew Walsh]

The music was great. We didn't even have to touch the jukebox because what they were playing organically was so fantastic.

[Luke Burbank]

There was Jeff Tweedy on there, There was a little Bob Dylan, There was some Grateful Dead. Whatever the algorithm was ne, it was wonderful. So, just for the record, if you are ever, if you find yourself in Medina county, if you find yourself anywhere near Valley City, Ohio, head on over to Gandalf's. It's just a wonderful, wonderful place and named for an absolutely wonderful, very good boy dog named Gandalf, who is, we learned, no longer with us. No longer with. And by us, I mean people on this planet. But there were pictures of Gandalf up

[Andrew Walsh]

and the watercolor of Gandalf.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, the absolute goodest boy out there.

[Andrew Walsh]

So you have some regrets about your slander?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I feel bad about putting this audio drop together.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know. I think that's a fine tribute, honestly.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it was delicious and lovely and we appreciate them. I was wondering if there was any. We brought our friend Brian, who works here for the township and who's been taking care of us all week, and I was curious. I didn't want to ask because I didn't want to. If they weren't aware of the. Of the. Of the folks who were there eating, that is to say us, because we were like the only people in the restaurant when we showed up. If they weren't aware that we were the guys from the podcast who may have said that their name was a little confusing.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think that really got back to them, did it?

[Luke Burbank]

I don't know. They were being very nice to us.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, sure. But I think maybe that's just how

[Luke Burbank]

they are to everybody.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is the Midwest. People are nice here, Luke.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

You coastal elite, deal with it. Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

So 206414TBTL if you want to call in about. I've told this story many times on the show, but it's not a story of going to the bathroom. It's a story of having to go to the bathroom when I was doing. Wait, wait, don't tell me.

[Andrew Walsh]

This makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it.

[Luke Burbank]

It was rough, rough stuff. And luckily I somehow managed to hold it in, but it was a touch and go situation. So maybe you've got a story like that. They've traced the cyclospiriasis to iceberg lettuce in Taco Bell. Ingredients specific.

[Andrew Walsh]

So none of the. None of these cases have come from anything but dining at Taco Bell.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, There is a specific company, I believe they're called Taylor Farms and they provide the lettuce for Taco Bell. And we were talking about this, I think yesterday as we were driving home, which is. It's a little on the nose for it to be Taco Bell, right? Like it's kind of.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm actually kind of bummed about that because it's kind of so hacky, right?

[Luke Burbank]

It would be, yeah. Let's see here. I'm looking this up. Taco Bell lettuce. It comes, I believe from this. I think they may actually grow it in Mexico, but it's an American company, I believe it's like I said, called Taylor Farms. I want to make sure I've got the name right lest I slander them. But yeah, Lettuce at Taco Bell in five states confirmed as source of parasite. And they're warning consumers not to eat shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, West Virginia and wait for it, Ohio, of course.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, there we are. We have not gone to any Taco Bell's though.

[Luke Burbank]

No, we. The closest we would have gotten was when we, we did doordash some food on the later side of night on Monday. Although I don't think Taco Bell was ever in the conversation.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I don't know where are you

[Luke Burbank]

late night Taco Bell guys ever.

[John Skloroff]

I think I explicitly said, oh, do we want Taco Bell?

[Luke Burbank]

Because for me that is smart.

[John Skloroff]

But the appeal of the. The Wendy's nearby our place was very convenient.

[Andrew Walsh]

In fact, you guys, it was suspicious

[Luke Burbank]

though because when they showed up, they said we ordered two. Really what I wanted was a Frosty. Yeah, that was your Frosties. And they didn't. They said that the machine was broken. Which peace and love to people working at Dave Thomas arena late on a Monday night. That's a thankless job. I don't begrudge you not wanting to have to break down and clean and restart the whole Frosty machine. But I'm not buying that the Frosty machine is broken. I think you didn't want to deal with it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, it was interesting that they showed. Your order showed up first of all. Also just remember John was sayings, two nuggets.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh yeah, they under nugged you.

[John Skloroff]

My spicy nuggets.

[Andrew Walsh]

And so this is.

[Luke Burbank]

They under nugged you. I was looking forward to those under

[Andrew Walsh]

frosted me, but they included a spoon but no Frosties. And so that's why it's like 10,000

[Luke Burbank]

spoons when all you need is a

[Andrew Walsh]

Frosty So do you guys think that the restaurants withheld or do we trust the drivers who, by the way, had to drive it literally two blocks?

[Luke Burbank]

The reason that we doordashed was because I don't know if we would be allowed to walk through the drive.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think so. And we weren't in a condition.

[Luke Burbank]

We literally had eyes on the Wendy's. It's one parking lot over from our Airbnb.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, yeah, but you had to get an Airbnb or I'm sorry, you had to get it, you know, delivered. But the fact that there was a spoon and I'm not, I'm seriously not. I kind of don't. Speaking of hacky, I kind of don't like the idea of spreading rumors about a delivery driver that is sus. But like, I do think it's weird that they included a spoon and no Frosty. And it seemed like you had wondered out loud for a moment if maybe the restaurant did provide the Frostys, but the drivers. Maybe the Frostys took a detour into their tummies.

[John Skloroff]

Not to make accusations against our. The, the gig economy workers in this, in this tough economy. But we ordered two. One spoon came and one Frosty was on the receipt.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. And so one Frosty on the receipt.

[John Skloroff]

I think the nuggets being left out were the workers at Wendy's because the bags were closed and the spoon was in the bag.

[Andrew Walsh]

And you decided it didn't feel rifled through.

[John Skloroff]

No, the bag.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, good. I feel better than.

[Luke Burbank]

The reason that I was feeling a bit suspicious about the. The delivery was because I felt a little embarrassed that we had ordered this food from a Wendy's that we could have walked to in under 40 seconds.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So when they pulled up, I said, I know this is weird. We're so close, but I don't think that we're allowed to go through the drive through line if we're not in the car. And he said something to the effect of, oh, we had to drive across town and get this from another Wendy's, which I wasn't really buying.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, that's.

[Luke Burbank]

So that I was immediately a little bit suspicious about the overall situation.

[John Skloroff]

It was also one person's name. It was, I think, a woman's name.

[Luke Burbank]

That happens a lot, though. Sadly. I know far too much about this studio.

[Andrew Walsh]

Never knew this.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm not proud of myself. I've got people that I will. Because sometimes, you know, for me to order groceries out to the Madrona Hill studio, it's. Or for me to drive and get them it could be, you know, I don't know, 45 minutes down to town, get the stuff, come back. Sometimes I'm just busy, I don't have time and so I'll actually have groceries delivered, which I don't know, I feel a little, I don't, I feel not great about that. But I do know a lot about now the whole business of having stuff brought to your house. And it's often a person in their car but maybe with their significant other. That's a pretty common thing. And in a way it's like, it's sort of sweet because it's people spending time together. But it also makes me feel sad because I feel like we live due to late stage capitalism, we live in a world where the way that people sometimes can spend time with their significant other is out door dashing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I could see that, you know,

[Luke Burbank]

because they're working around the clock on various gigs to try to make the bills and this is like, this is our special time now.

[Andrew Walsh]

And so yeah, we have to, so we want to be together but if you're one of them has to like have that gig, then that's how they're going to be together. Sure.

[Narrator]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

One last thing. The, this Taylor Farms, they do sell some of their lettuce to those like, you know, bagged lettuce operations.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So I don't know, I mean, I guess sort of caveat emptor, I kind

[Andrew Walsh]

of stopped buying those. I feel like there was a period of my life where I was buying a lot of spring mix, a lot of spring mix. But I really, I buy. Not iceberg lettuce now.

[Luke Burbank]

Romaine, Romaine.

[Andrew Walsh]

I buy.

[Luke Burbank]

I just, I am obsessed with romaine.

[Andrew Walsh]

Lettuce tend to be in the bag, which I kind of don't love, to be honest with you. You can get a really big thing of romaine that usually just has a big like kind of twist tie around it. But I like the hearts of romaine better. But I, again I'm not, I'm not super conscientious about this but the idea of single use plastics is way more in my head now than it used to be. And so I don't love buying produce in these thin single use plastic bags. But that is my go to now to have romaine on hand. I haven't bought like a spring mix or any of those pre mixed salad bags in a long time.

[Luke Burbank]

I am a complete romaine fanatic.

[Andrew Walsh]

You are too. Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

And this is my move. I, I have this big like it's like a Japanese kind of. It almost looks like it is like a meat cleaver kind of knife.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

That I bought. It was not expensive. It was like 20 bucks. But then my nephew Jack, by the way, who turns 16 today, shout out

[Andrew Walsh]

to my nephew Jack, Jack Lee Brooks.

[Luke Burbank]

He is like an incredible knife sharpener.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

And he was over at my house and he sharpened this thing so it actually is quite functional. And I use it to cut up everything.

[Andrew Walsh]

Lock eyes with you the whole time he was sharpening.

[Luke Burbank]

I know knife sharpening sounds like a weird hobby for a then 15 year old boy. I promise it's all above board. But he actually got the knife. He would. I asked him to do this because I had a sharpener that I bought that I didn't know how to use. And so he had sharpened all my knives. And then he could actually like do the thing with a piece of paper where he would just hit the knife and it would just slice right off.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Luke Burbank]

And. But I love this, this, this knife now and I use it to cut my veggies all the time because also it has a nice bit of weight to it. So it kind of does some of the work.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, a nice knife.

[Luke Burbank]

And I'll cut the romaine super duper thin. That's the key. Like if I'm, if I'm, you know, putting it in a salad or maybe even on a sandwich or whatever, I like to see how thinly can I chop this romaine.

[Andrew Walsh]

Interesting. Yeah. Because you're cutting it down across. You're cutting it into ribbons, like. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I'm taking that, you know, that, that, that, that big stalk or whatever you want to call it. I cut the end off and then I'm just like. And then I wash. This is the thing I've been doing too. I'm washing my vegetables after I chop them. Is that when you wash yours?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, I wash them first. Although lettuce is a sticky wicket because you, you do wonder, am I getting down in there enough? And I think lettuce, lettuce is a very important thing to watch as we are learning in the news.

[Luke Burbank]

Absolutely, I am. When was the last time you shit your pants?

[Caller Alicia]

Been a while.

[Andrew Walsh]

That beep does nothing.

[Luke Burbank]

The beeps mean nothing.

[John Skloroff]

I'm a big fan of. Okay, a couple things. Like I was gonna say pro move. I'm not a pro. Look, what I like to do is I keep the stem on and I slice like long ways. I turn it and slice it long ways, but romaine.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, hear me out.

[John Skloroff]

So you slice it long ways Twice.

[Luke Burbank]

And then you ribbon it.

[John Skloroff]

And so it's like ribbony, but also smaller pieces.

[Luke Burbank]

How does long ways even work?

[John Skloroff]

You just. So it's. It's. It's on its side.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[John Skloroff]

And you cut here and spin it

[Andrew Walsh]

in here just so it's just three. Three chunks now.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, I see. I see what you're doing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Then he chops it the way we chop it. I do. Sometimes I go the way normal people chop. Sometimes I go once down the middle, too. If it's a really big leaf. Yeah. Down where you are. Yeah.

[John Skloroff]

Right. And then. And then you leave the stem on. So when you're ribbing in it. Ribbon. Ribbon. Ribbiting it.

[Luke Burbank]

Ribbit, I think.

[Andrew Walsh]

Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.

[Luke Burbank]

That's my favorite thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

That is my new favorite piece of audio. Ribbit.

[John Skloroff]

As you're. As your ribbit. I get it. Like stays in place and then you chop it and then they cuff this. Them at the end. But then as far as washing it, invest in a salad spinner. Super. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

This is my whole system. Salad spinner in the sink. Okay. Usually I'm already pretty angry at the Mariners by this point. I've. I've wrapped up watching Chris Hayes and now it's time to mutter under my breath about situational hitting and how it's not happening for us. And I have, I sit there, I've got the, you know, the countertop, I chop up the veggies and then the, you know, so I like, let's say the stalk or the end of the romaine. I'm not going to wash that because I'm not going to eat that. I chop that off, toss that out, chop up the carrots, the romaine, all of it. And it's all going into the salad spinner that's in the sink. And then when it's all chopped up in there, and then you hit it with the water, you spin it. I think it's a pretty good system. I'm very proud of it. I may have invented it.

[Andrew Walsh]

I want to talk about washing produce more. I want to switch the conversation, though, to talking about washing fruit, specifically berries. So when I bring fruit home from the grocery store, first of all, I wash it all right away. I want the fruit in the refrigerator to be pre washed. Yes. I don't want to grab an apple, you know, a peach or whatever it is, and then then have to wash it, then eat it. So when I bring home the fruit and then also I'm bringing home kind of like a lot of berries and stuff. And I'm often, like, throwing that directly into, like, kind of a. Just a very quick fruit salad. During these months, I'm often bringing home a pineapple, which I know is not a berry, but I cut up a pineapple, I put it in a little, you know, a Tupperware. Then I throw in blueberries, I cut up some strawberries, I put them in there, and maybe some grapes. So here's where I'm going with this. My entire life, my process of washing these fruits has been to wash them in the sink, usually in a colander. Right. And then letting them dry in the colander. But, you know, picture a bunch of blueberries and strawberries. I'm shaking them under the water in the colander. Kind of shaky. Shaky. It's kind of fun. You feel, I don't know, bring some pleasure. And then that's it. You rinse them, you let them dry, and then you put them in the fruit salad or wherever you're putting them. But here's something I started doing recently, and I don't know why. This is before the whole. The whole cyclopara, whatever we're gonna call it. Cyclospiriasis, cyclosporiasis outbreak. I don't know why I started doing this about a month or two ago, but I was like, you know what? I don't know if these things are getting clean enough in the colander. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take one of these nice bowls. Genevieve has a bowl addiction. So we have a million bowls around the kitchen. And so I take a big bowl, and they tend to be brightly colored. This one that I have is, like, kind of a bright yellow or a bright green. And I put all of the fruit I do, I clean them in the colander first, but then I dump them into the bowl and I let them soak. I fill the bowl with cold, clean water. And I did it one time just to see, like, how much more dirt is going to come off of this after I've already done my usual colander method. And my goodness, you can see the dirt when you empty it out. It sticks to the bottom of the bowl. I had not been cleaning this thoroughly enough. You have to let these fruits soak.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Addie got me this amazing set of what are called makanai bowls. They're from Japan. She got me this for my birthday. And they are incredibly well designed, and they've got a little strainer lid that you can put on the top of them.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Luke Burbank]

That's great. So when I get. So you can see. Andrew, I'm showing you this online. So when I get, like, my blueberries or whatever, I put them in the bowl, fill them with water, let them just sit there for a while, let them soak. And then I put that strainer on top, dump it out and put it in the fridge, and I'm ready to go. Have you noticed.

[Andrew Walsh]

Perfect.

[Luke Burbank]

That I've really become a fruit boy in the last.

[Andrew Walsh]

You've been eating a lot of blueberries during soundcheck.

[Luke Burbank]

I know. And cherries. Don't forget cherries.

[Andrew Walsh]

You were crunching on something the other day. I didn't want to ask you what it was, but you were, like, during the show. You were, like, crunching on something. You were, like, tossing. Did you have, like, nuts or something?

[Luke Burbank]

Maybe I had some sort of pistachios. Who knows?

[Andrew Walsh]

Your fingers were bright red.

[Luke Burbank]

That was probably the pistachios. That might have been the pistachios. Hey, I saw that we had a phone call coming in. I wonder if someone has a story for us that is both entertaining and appropriate on the topic of cyclospiriasis. Hello, You. Let's hold on one second. How about this one? Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

Ohoehoi.

[Luke Burbank]

You're on tbtl. Who's this?

[Andrew Walsh]

If you're calling from the three six zero, you're on tv.

[Luke Burbank]

The call is coming. You've been on hold for a while. You may have gone back to sleep.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hello?

[Luke Burbank]

We can hear you. Who's this?

[Sherry]

This is Sherry in Port Townsend.

[Luke Burbank]

Sherry, my goodness gracious. How are you?

[Sherry]

Can you hear me?

[Luke Burbank]

We hear you just fine. Do you hear us?

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, I think we have a little bit of a delay. How are you doing today, Sherry? What's going on over there?

[Sherry]

Yeah, I'm hearing you. I'm here. I'm seeing you on screen and hearing you double in my phone, so it's a little disorienting.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, can you turn.

[Sherry]

I'm not gonna talk about poop. No more poop talk.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, wow. Well, Sherry, this call is over. I appreciate you being part of the. Now, do you. Let me ask you this. Do you want to mute us on the TV so it's a little less confusing?

[Sherry]

Oh, I already have.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay. Okay, great. Okay, so you're hearing us now just in single aud, right?

[Sherry]

Yeah, I am now.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, well, you've already completely torpedoed my plan for the day, so what is it that you would like to talk about?

[Caller Alicia]

So we have.

[Sherry]

I suggested on the chat, and I think we're in agreement. Can we talk? Can we have callers come in and call and talk about when they first connected with other tens?

[Luke Burbank]

Actually, it's heartwarming. But only if we and the other tens were both almost having a bathroom accident.

[Sherry]

What's that?

[Luke Burbank]

It's only if they. If the other 10 almost had a bathroom accident. If there are stories of meeting tens through that. No, absolutely. People can listen. People can call in about whatever they want. Did you want to talk about meeting a 10 or connecting with tens?

[Sherry]

No, it was just an idea.

[Luke Burbank]

No, but you don't have a poop story. You don't have a story of connecting with tens. Sherry, what is going on?

[Andrew Walsh]

But let's talk about this for a second. Sherry. So it sounds like you really don't like the poop talk. I just heard a very deep, heavy sigh coming from you. You don't like this either, huh?

[Sherry]

Well, I don't want to get into it. I'm a colon cancer survivor.

[Luke Burbank]

Ah, I see.

[Sherry]

Poop talk is kind of part of my life.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I understand that. So you're. To you, it's not the sort of quote unquote grossness for me.

[Caller Alicia]

It's really what story do I tell.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. Absolutely. And also, I could see it being. If that's too much a part of your life in a way you wish it wasn't, then hearing more of it could be a little bit less than fun for you. I totally understand.

[Sherry]

Oh, I think it's funny.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know, one thing I want to mention, Sheri, is something has changed deeply in my relationship with Genevieve in that when I'm on a trip like this now, I will. And in fact, I'm going to read this directly. I'll get a text message from Genevieve.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, boy.

[Andrew Walsh]

Out of the blue.

[Luke Burbank]

I already know what this is about.

[Andrew Walsh]

Telling me specifically about the question quality of poop that our dog just took. Like, and I don't mean that we're in some sort of a conversation and I'm like, well, how did it go? I was just, I think maybe doing my job. Yesterday, maybe I was sitting at. At Gandalf's with the boys and out of the blue, Genevieve just. I'm. I can't. Oh, here it is. Out of the blue. I'm going to read this. Genevieve, if you're watching, apologies. I know this was a private conversation. Out of the blue. At what time? One o' clock in the afternoon. Lucy has had two huge poops today already. She woke me up at 3am and then again at 8am so we should be fairly safe for a while. Out of the blue. That's the kind that's. That's where our relationship is at. How are you guys doing?

[Caller Alicia]

Well, the thing is, that sounds super

[Sherry]

familiar because we are. We've been double income, no kids, but multiple dogs as a couple. And so poop talk was part of dog talk.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Yep.

[Luke Burbank]

And what I've noticed.

[Sherry]

Assess health. Right.

[Caller Alicia]

Well.

[Luke Burbank]

And, you know, John's got a couple of dogs, so he's probably got a lot to say on this. But what I was noticing is even when I was dog sitting Gigi and dj, and they're, like, very housebroken. They're, you know, they're older dogs, but every time they went to the bathroom outside and I witnessed it, I felt relief.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Luke Burbank]

They got it out of their system. They weren't inside when it happened. Does that ever go away? Sherry, are you always kind of relieved when you're. When your dog. Did you take your dogs?

[Sherry]

I don't have dogs now, but I pay attention to other people's dogs. But I think that the tens that are on the chat are probably disappointed in me because we are still talking about poop.

[Luke Burbank]

Wait, so you're saying. Sherry, hold on. You're saying that the tens there was. The people that are commenting on YouTube, which, by the way, we're streaming on YouTube right now. There's a general sense that they would like us to aver. To go away from the topic of number two stuff. That's the general consensus.

[Andrew Walsh]

And they recruited you to pass this?

[Sherry]

No, no, I recruited myself.

[Luke Burbank]

Sherry, did you. When you. When you.

[Sherry]

You know me, I'm not. I'm not shy about this. I'm not really shy about any.

[Luke Burbank]

You had dogs in Port Townsend? Did you have a dog in Port Townsend?

[Sherry]

No, we had dogs when we lived in Seattle. But when we started this weird lifestyle of ours. Well, you know, it was after we had two dogs that we lost in fairly short order and decided it was time for a change. And we came up here for a long weekend and three months later had rented a house. And it was. Oh, my God, Luke. It was at the same time that you were moving here, and I felt like such a. I don't know, like soccer.

[Luke Burbank]

That was pretty much exactly how we ended up there, too, I think. We went up for the weekend and we're like, why do we not live here? This is the most beautiful place in the world. How do you feel about dogs on north beach and dogs being off leash on North Beach?

[Caller Alicia]

You know, I feel like Once you

[Sherry]

come around the point where the bluff is a little higher, I don't really have an issue with it, but I don't think dogs should be off leash nearer the parking lot. Too many people and too many kids. Yeah, but, you know, it's. I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I think you're right about that.

[Sherry]

People are looking for a place to run their dogs. And I don't. I don't have an issue with it because I want to meet every dog, but I can understand why people don't like it.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I. You know, I had Rudy out on that beach all the time, but more down where we were living and not over towards the parking area. But I was always stressed that people were going to be mad at me. Sherry, is there anything else that you wanted to talk about today? Share with us, Bring to the table?

[Sherry]

Well, I want to put a plug in for you to bring the TBT L A thon to Port Townsend.

[Luke Burbank]

That is a really interesting idea, Sherry, and one that I have kind of been thinking about lately. I don't know if I've shared this with John and Andrew, but I miss Port Townsend. It's a great town. I think it's close enough to Seattle that if we did an event out there, I think folks would show up and. Oh, yeah, it's just. Yeah, it's a really, really great place that I miss a lot. So.

[Andrew Walsh]

And we did a special week of programming there all those years ago from the post office.

[Sherry]

Yeah, right, right.

[Luke Burbank]

But, yeah, you know, I stayed away

[Sherry]

from that because I really. Oh, God. The temptation to go knock on your door was so great. And I'm like, you can't do that. I don't. I was not that person that did that. I know people came to your door, but I did not.

[Luke Burbank]

That was. That was. Would have been fine, but also, thank you. I guess that was, you know, that was sort of respectful of you. I do feel like people would occasionally slip a note under the door. Although that's what I get for telling everybody where I was doing the show from. So, anyway, everything's.

[Sherry]

Everything's knowable now. Everybody's location is knowable now. So, you know, there are no secrets.

[Andrew Walsh]

And, Sherry, I just want to compliment one thing about phone line.

[Caller Alicia]

Go ahead.

[Andrew Walsh]

I just want to compliment your phone line, by the way. This is a great phone line. And that is. That is the most important part of calling the TBT line, being on a great line. Thank you for that. What were you going to say before I cut you off with that ridiculousness?

[Sherry]

Well, no, I'll tell you that. I'm calling from a landline.

[Andrew Walsh]

There it is.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, that's the key.

[Sherry]

We're Luddites, So do you want to hear the extent of how. We are Luddites. We have a landline that we use for all of our inbound and outbound calls, pretty much. We each have cell phones, of course, and Peter has a work one also, but we don't do any streaming. We don't have cable. We don't have satellites. We don't have any form of television. We do watch things on DVD that we get from the library. We were just talking about this the other day that we save a lot of money by not paying for any streaming services. We are Luddite.

[Luke Burbank]

Sherry, it sounds like it's a miracle that you listen to tbtl. I was gonna say it's pretty phenomenal as a podcast.

[Sherry]

We are total podcast addicts. Oh, we are just. Oh, my God. There is not enough hours in the day for each of us to listen to all of our podcasts, so that's the1.the1.technology News from podcasts. We get all. Most of our entertainment from podcasts, so.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I'm. We are tremendously grateful to you and Peter for all your support over the years in the morale department, in the financial department, and then just being awesome department. And. And we appreciate you, Sherry.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, thank you.

[Sherry]

Well, say hi to Ohio for me. I was born in Athens and lived there for a while. My family's. Both sides of my family are from Ohio, so.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, nice.

[Sherry]

Fun to see you guys there.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, we'll go track them down. It's a little smoky here, but we'll go find your ancestors in.

[Sherry]

I don't know if I could find them.

[Caller Alicia]

Okay.

[Andrew Walsh]

My buddy went to school.

[Caller Alicia]

Nice to talk to you guys.

[Andrew Walsh]

My buddy went to school in Athens at ou and he called it Harvard on the Hawkings. I don't know if that would be entertaining to you or not, but I just wanted to end this conversation with an awkward joke. Good. Thank you, Sherry. Goodbye.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, Sherry. Appreciate you. Is. Is the Hawkings. Is that like.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think it's the Hawkins River. What if I even got that wrong? Hawkings River. Harvard and the Hawkings. It's Hocking River, I think Harvard on the hocking. And. Yeah, so he called his school, that is. And saying that Ohio University is Harvard on the hocking.

[John Skloroff]

I went to. The first school I went to was Westchester Community College, and we called it Harvard on the Hudson.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, there you go.

[John Skloroff]

That was more ironic, though.

[Luke Burbank]

We are here, of course, this is the final day of the TBTLathon and it's been thank you for being a 10. It's been as it always is. It's been incredibly life affirming for us. It's also been bank account affirming, which is a big part of why we're here, because we're raising the money for the show so we can keep doing the show. And thank you so much to everybody who has been donating and stepping up. It's just been incredible to see a lot of folks have been really looking to help out because of thinking about other folks who might not be in the spot to do that this year. And just thank you to everybody. And it's so heartwarming because we just sit around, you know, back at the Airbnb, like John will say, oh, this person just emailed in and said this about, you know, you know, why they like the show or why they're upping their donation or just kind of like thoughts about TBTL and what it means to people. And it is just like, again, as important as it is for us to raise the revenue, it's just like, nice. First of all, it's nice to be in the same room as the two of you. That's really fun. And to just kind of be sort of basking in the glow of like the TBTL community. It's. It's a really incredible thing. So, yeah, tbtl.net is where you can go and help us keep this thing going.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, it's been nice to hear from people who are including little notes or sending notes to John. And John's been kind of copying us and some of his replies as we see people talking about what TBTL means to them, which is very, very sweet, and why they give and how long they've been listening. And it's always very, very encouraging. We were having a conversation on the way here today because we want to be transparent with you guys to let you know that, like, we do need your donations to keep this going. We, you know, as we've said, we don't have ads. Like, this is the only revenue stream we have. Right. Yeah, I'm just making like we don't. You were selling burgers on the side for a while there. TBTL branded burgers. But aside from that. Oh, and like, we've sold four sweatshirts

[Luke Burbank]

this year, so there's that exactly. Got that going.

[Andrew Walsh]

The merch store, like for real, that is basically a wash for us. We don't make money off the merch. I Mean, maybe a penny or two on the dollar or something. Yeah, but. But no, this is. This is it. This is how we do this. But also because you're so special to us as listeners and we know you. You know, we knew Sherry immediately. We know Sherry. Right. And like, I know that Peter just

[Luke Burbank]

ran the interurban trail the other day because I saw him on Facebook, because he's eagle soaring.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure. Yeah. And I mean, we could. We could go down a list of all these people we know. People I see at the grocery store when I go there. You know, Arlen, I see you, Arlen, not Arlene. So we don't also want to get on these microphones, though, and berate you into giving or make you feel guilty into giving. And I hope you kind of understand that it's hard for me to ask for things I'm trying to get better at. Like, the reason we got this desk here for the shot that we're doing this week was because I had to, like, ask for something. I'm always shy about doing that, so. So we appreciate you guys going to tbtl.net, donating and also making it easy on us not to, like, twist the screws.

[Luke Burbank]

We were talking about this in getting into the car today to come out here from the Airbnb and each morning of the thon, I think generally speaking, we'll have a little kind of pre game sesh. Hey, what are we thinking about for the messaging today? Kind of, where are we at with things, with the goals that we have for the show, financially, etc. And, you know, if we were. If this were a public radio station and it were the last day of the public radio pledge drive, and John knows this better than anyone, there would be a whole system of kind of closing the deal. And, you know, there'd be probably a special part of the binder that we would be looking at that would be helping us, you know, get, as they say in Glengarry Glen Ross, get them to sign their name on the line that is dotted. But what we realized as we're getting in the car is like, we actually don't really want to do that because we just know how the tens are. And we know that if you're somebody who can support the show, you probably already have, or you might be planning on doing it today, you're going to do it. Like, it's. It's not the typical relationship with this kind of thing where it's like, we gotta really, like, we've gotta get everyone, you know, get them to sign and get them locked in and whatever. It's not like you trying to sling field and stream.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right? Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

We don't have someone coming through behind us to call and, and get everything kind of locked in. It's more just like we just want to say thank you, you know, thanks for making this happen and letting us do this all these years and thanks for all of you for supporting us this week as well. There are some really great thank you gifts as well, which you can [e-mail] that we are super duper excited about. Excited for all of you to get the T shirt. As you've mentioned, people are really excited about the T shirt because it's a great design. It also, I think it sort of predicts or confirms, you could say that we are going to win the frog jump championship on Sunday. We are in Flight 17. I don't know what that means except the rumor is that it would be maybe around 1:30 or something. So if you're planning on coming out on Sunday and you want to try to see how our Dave does, that's I guess we're in flight 17.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, we should actually specify that a little bit more because I do know that people want to come out and hang out with us at the Valley City Frog Jump. By the way, I heard a Valley City frog jump shout out on IdeaStream, the WKSU public radio station I was at this morning where I used to work when it was still in Kent. But all of that is to say it's an all day event that begins at like 10:30. I think opening ceremony is actually 10:15 or something. And the jumping begins at 10:30 and goes until 5:30. So that's a very big window we've been giving you all week. But it does sound like we're probably gonna be arriving at the frog jump ourselves. Probably midday. Ish. Probably around noonish.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, you're gonna hear it about noon.

[Andrew Walsh]

And then if you want to come hang out, we're gonna have Luke, John and I are gonna have to like at some point maybe separate ourselves out and go behind a bush somewhere and record some podcastery for, for Monday's show.

[Luke Burbank]

But you always make it sound so voyeuristic.

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean,

[Luke Burbank]

I mean we are, we are the podcast that brought you this frog.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh yeah, we're gonna be.

[Luke Burbank]

That sounds like a frog who's hiding behind a bush podcast.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly. So if you see the bushes all shuffling around and rattling, we're just doing some podcast and. But yeah, but we do want to, I mean, basically this is a day we're not doing a show or anything, but we just want to hang out with you guys.

[Luke Burbank]

And again, I do believe I'll confirm this with one of the Daves this afternoon. No, the human days that we are going to have, I believe some little area, a little pavilion or something. And when we figure out where that is, I don't know, maybe we can post it on Facebook or something like. Or, I don't know, we could maybe we bring, bring a little sign over with us or something. I don't know how we're going to indicate where the sort of TBTL hang is, but we will do our best to make it very obvious. It's like 5,000 people or something come out to this. So it's kind of a, it's kind of a thing, it's kind of a whole production. But again, thank you, thank you, thank you for, for all your support this week. If you've already gotten to it or if you're going to be getting to it later today or even this weekend, people can still log on this weekend, right, John? And they'll be, they'll be in the system and they'll be getting their. Thank you.

[John Skloroff]

Absolutely. Yeah. We'll keep, we'll keep the donation page up for a little bit longer. And if you want to make your gift and get your set of cards or your T shirt, wherever you may be interested in getting, you could Definitely go to TBT net/, donate, and that'll be available for, for certainly a few days. But this is, this is the, the final day, really. So, you know, again, like building on what you guys are saying, we don't want anyone to feel pressured or obligated or forced into it. But if you were planning to make a donation you give once a year anyway, you're planning to do it again, like now, this is the day to do. Just get it out of the way and thank you.

[Luke Burbank]

If you're watching us live on YouTube right now and you're on the fence about donating, just. I don't know if you can do this on your phone screen or on your laptop. Just enlarge, enlarge, enhance, enhance. And look at the face of a fifth grade Andrew Walsh.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah, right there.

[Luke Burbank]

Running for vice president of Liverpool Elementary School. And just look at that face and think, like, do I want to support that adorable, cherubic little face? The answer is yes. Of course you do.

[Andrew Walsh]

Think about that boy. He didn't win the election in 1987. He never got to be vice president.

[Luke Burbank]

This is his chance. Let him touch those things.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let me touch those things. Can I get a. In the words of Paul Giamatti, I could really use a win here.

[Luke Burbank]

He could. Please give him that win today. My [e-mail].

[Andrew Walsh]

Hello and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

Alright, I actually have another topic people can call in on since nobody took the bait on number two talks. It's 206-414-TBTL. This is the topic. Should we stay on daylight saving time? This is a big news this week. Something called the Sunshine Protection act which has been kicking around Congress for many, many years. It passed the House at some point, but then not the Senate. Now this week it's actually passed the Senate, it's yet to go to the House. And what it would do is it would leave all of us on what we're on right now, which is daylight saving time. And it seems to me being from the Pacific Northwest and somebody who really doesn't enjoy it when it gets dark at four in the afternoon during the wintertime that it's kind of a no brainer. But there were like Pramila Jayapal and Adam Smith and I'm forgetting a couple of other folks from Washington state actually are in opposition to this based on safety, you said. So there are, there are two schools of thought on this. The one school of thought is that by staying in daylight saving time you are going to extend the period of darkness in the morning. It is going to be dark until like it's not going to get light until like 9am Some of the time.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

And that's maybe less safe for people in the morning, particularly kids going to the school bus.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's going to be. Oh that is true. The kids days are shifted. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And also some people say that it's actually not our circadian rhythm, that our circadian rhythm is attached to the real the setting of the sun, the rising of the sun. And when we do daylight saving time we're kind of messing with nature. We're kind of trying to sort of reorient our day around there being more light. Now what that also means. So it'll be. It will get light later in the morning which nobody likes. I don't know anyone who likes getting up when it's dark. That is. There is something at least for me that tells me this is not how it's supposed to be. But on the other hand it also means it will not get dark at 4, which also seems to me to be kids are maybe taking the bus home or milling about outside the school I don't know why the 8am darkness is more dangerous than the 4pm darkness.

[John Skloroff]

Was it my understanding when I was younger and I was learning about this isn't was for farmers, right. So people families working the fields and stuff and does that. I mean I guess we have better lighting luminary technology these days. So is it not as necessary necessary for them is like. Or do we just not care about them?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, one of the articles that I was reading about this the other day said that they actually did this. This has actually been done in America before. I forget exactly when it was really, but it went from being a very popular idea. Maybe somebody can Google this as I'm. As I'm talking and then call in about it. They did this and it actually ended up really dropping in popularity after they did it. So there was some period of time where we weren't leaving daylight saving time. And I remember from the article they said that even though the. Well, maybe they were saying the farmers were also not fans for whatever reason, staying in daylight saving time, which is allegedly for the farmers, was actually not popular with farmers for some reason. I don't know why.

[John Skloroff]

Somebody in the comments said 1973. They tried it it looks like.

[Luke Burbank]

And so I mean, listen, I. I would still probably rather it not get dark at 4pm that is just selfishly motivated. I think I'm. There's a chance depending on the day, like if it's a Saturday, it's not a great chance, but I might be asleep Anyway at 9am like I feel like I know I'm gonna be awake at 4pm and I would like it to not be dark. I may not be, you know, like the hour of darkness, I think between let's say 8am and 9am I think will be less bothersome to me personally than it getting dark at 4pm that's one that I have a real tough time with.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't have a very strong opinion about this, but the appeal to me is actually just the cessation of switching. That's the only part that I don't like whether we're switching back and forth and if we. So therefore, if I'm going to advocate for getting rid of a system in which we're switching, then we have to choose standard or daylight. And I guess I'd prefer daylight. But I really now it's gotten a lot easier. I mean with our phones automatically updating now and probably a lot of appliances and stuff. But you know, back in the day you had to like, you had to remind Everybody that the time change is coming and, you know, set all your clocks, go around the house changing your clocks or what have you. So it's easier now, but it still seems. It just seems inconvenient and unnatural.

[Luke Burbank]

Sort of the, I guess British Columbia has actually done this already just recently. They're staying on Daylight Saving time. And one other thing, one other provision in this Sunshine Protection act, which I believe Marco Rubio was a big proponent and apparently the current president has also signed off on it, which makes me inherently suspicious. Nothing will get me. Nothing will get me sort of doubting something I thought I wanted more than the people who are supporting it.

[John Skloroff]

The real reason behind it has to do with crypto or something that's going to probably.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly. Yeah. The crypto farmers, the crypto miners, those

[John Skloroff]

are the farmers they care about.

[Luke Burbank]

But, yeah, I think I'm inclined. Oh, the one thing about this current bill is it allows states that don't want to stay in Daylight saving time to opt out, which also seems kind of messy.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, no, no, no, no. We all got to get on the same page with this. I don't like this. I mean, I'm not going to say I don't like the states, but I don't like the fact that, like, some states do. Isn't there a state that half of it changes and half of it doesn't? Am I spreading slander?

[Luke Burbank]

No, I think that's like Arizona, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Is that the Arizona.

[John Skloroff]

Arizona and Indiana does something. Oh, yeah, but that might be more time zones. Indiana does something goofy.

[Andrew Walsh]

I feel like we need to get on the same page.

[Luke Burbank]

The amount of time that we lost in the 80s, saying, like, 8, 7 Central or whatever. That was like, I remember TV always saying, you know, the show that was coming up and it'd be on at like 7, 8 Central or whatever. Yeah, like, like the people in the Central time zone had never experienced the fact that they're an hour, you know, off from everybody else.

[Andrew Walsh]

And it also, I know this has come up before, but then also that why did they only mention Central and not Mountain and West? But I guess that's because the schedule actually shifted for them. Like, they held SNL even though it was supposed to be a live broadcast. They air that at, you know what, what does it start? 11:30pm West coast time. So it's not even live for us. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

And also, yeah, definitely it's not live for us. John, in Minneapolis, in the Twin Cities, what time are you guys on? Roughly the same latitude that Seattle is. So are you guys Also getting it. Is it dark super early there in the wintertime?

[John Skloroff]

Yeah, we're pretty far north. We are, but I don't know exactly the latitude. Seattle. But it's.

[Luke Burbank]

But it's close. Like, what do you. What do you prefer? Do you prefer it being dark in the morning or dark in the afternoon?

[John Skloroff]

I guess because I work from home, I. And we don't have kids, so, like, that kind of stuff's not concerned, I don't think. I think I prefer to be lighter at night because, like, even if it's dark when I'm getting up, like, I'm getting up on the dogs out making a pot of coffee, but then I'm not, like, getting out there in the world. Jess might disagree with me because she has to get in the car and go to her office, but for me personally, it's like, I think I rather have the. The light in the evening, especially because she'll get home from work or walk the dogs kind of thing. Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

What does Manon say?

[Sherry]

Arf.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's interesting.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, it looks like we have a phone call. Somebody want to weigh in on daylight saving time? Hi, you're on tbtl.

[Caller Alicia]

Ahoy hoy.

[Sherry]

Hi, guys.

[Caller Alicia]

How you doing?

[Narrator]

Great.

[Andrew Walsh]

Who's this?

[Caller Alicia]

This is Alicia, just outside of Boston.

[Luke Burbank]

Hi, Alicia. How are ya?

[Caller Alicia]

I'm doing well. How are you all?

[Luke Burbank]

We're great.

[Caller Alicia]

Were you just reach out to me?

[Luke Burbank]

Did you just reach out to me on Instagram or was that somebody else?

[Caller Alicia]

No, that was not me.

[Luke Burbank]

Somebody had. This is a good idea, and I think we should do it. You know, Becca is running the Boston Marathon this year, and somebody reached out to me on Instagram and said, hey, when you're gonna be out there, let's do a little casual boss tens hang, which I think sounds like a blast. So circle. I mean, I'm assuming you'd wanna come to that. Maybe that's a big assumption on my

[Caller Alicia]

part, but absolutely no, that would be amazing. I'd be happy to help organize.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, great. I'm down for that.

[Caller Alicia]

Fantastic.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you want to talk about daylight saving or bathroom accidents or meeting tens?

[Caller Alicia]

Yeah. Well, door number three. I was inspired by Sherry's idea.

[Luke Burbank]

If you're going number three, you got real, real problems.

[Andrew Walsh]

What kind of lettuce are you eating?

[Caller Alicia]

Yeah, no fair. Fair. Ironically, a new Taco Bell just opened in our town, like, within the last coup week, so. Great day for that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do you mind saying what town it is, or are you trying to maybe be a little anonymous?

[Caller Alicia]

No, no, I'M fine. I'm in Sharon, Massachusetts.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think I know Sharon, but okay. Is it a small town? Is it a big deal when a Taco Bell opens?

[Caller Alicia]

Well, there were definitely people who wanted to make it a big deal. It is. We're right next to Foxborough, so we're Gillette slash Boston Stadium or was or what have you.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So do you have a story about connecting with the 10 or, you know, the friendship of the community of listeners?

[Caller Alicia]

Yes, this is a story from a while ago, but it just, for me, just encapsulates the past so much. This was about 10 years ago. I was flying from Boston to Oakland and I had a layover in New York at jfk. And I thought, you know, this will be lovely. The terminal there had just been completed. I'll have, like a nice little dinner and then I'll hop on the flight to California. And then, of course, it was delayed, delayed, delayed. And then the delay messages started just getting changing. I wish I could remember the word, but it didn't say delayed. It said rerouted or something up on the monitor.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Caller Alicia]

And so we go to the gate and they say because of greater than usual headwinds, we're going to have to just make a quick stop in Buffalo to get additional fuel.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, my gosh. Wait, so you've already flown from Boston to New York and now you're going up to Buffalo to get more fuel to fly over to Oakland?

[Caller Alicia]

Yes. Because, you know, Andrew, you mentioned small towns. New York, famously small town, could not have enough fuel there.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Caller Alicia]

So they're like, okay, we gotta do this. So they start boarding all the special people, you know, like you, Luke, like, you know, all the various.

[Luke Burbank]

Thank you for my service.

[Caller Alicia]

Yes, it's important. Thank you. Thank you. And then, so we see, you know, 30 people, whatever, get on and then those 30 people come off and then the flight attendants and the pilot come

[Luke Burbank]

off because someone had a bathroom accident on the flight. I knew where the story was going.

[Caller Alicia]

Honestly. Honestly, I wish. I think that would have been easier. It would have been simpler. No, they said, we do still need to go to Buffalo to get more fuel. However, we are currently overweight to land in Buffalo. So before we leave to fly to Buffalo, we need to siphon off some fuel here in New York.

[Andrew Walsh]

What in the world? Did Joseph Heller book your flight?

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Caller Alicia]

I forgot to mention that piece

[Luke Burbank]

Yosarian on the upgrade list. Wow, that is so ridiculous. So we have to get rid of some of the fuel so we can Go to Buffalo, which is not on the way to get more fuel.

[Caller Alicia]

Right, okay, exactly. Perfect. Perfectly logical. So I did what any totally level headed logical person would do then, which is I went to Facebook to complain and posted in the Sense page and was just like, I just, this is crazy. Like send me good vibes. I don't know if I'm ever going to make it to California. And so finally we get on the plane. I think the flight was supposed to leave at like 6pm I think we left at 10:30 or 11 and then stop in Buffalo. And so while we're on the ground in Buffalo, I was able to turn my phone back on. And in that, you know, very short flight from New York to Buffalo, not only had a bunch of tens commented, you know, with like the appropriate amount of love and empathy and frustration, but Bobby Pape had connected me to pilot Will Aw on like a separate dm who I'd never met. I think Bobby at the time was also a Boston. So maybe I'd been to a meetup and met him there, I'm not sure. But you know, he just being the connector. So while I was on the ground at midnight in Buffalo, I'm now messaging with pilot Will who is telling me how crazy this is to him as well. Like this makes no sense whatsoever. And then there was also. They discovered there was an issue with the plane's door while we were in Buffalo. So good times there.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Not enough gasoline in the plane door.

[Caller Alicia]

Yes.

[Sherry]

Right.

[Caller Alicia]

Yes, for sure. Yeah. They shouldn't have siphoned that off.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Caller Alicia]

But yeah, finally made it to Oakland. I think it was like 4 in the morning. And then like a week later Will wrote me again and said he had talked to some of his other pilot friends and had heard of a few other instances of this, but it was just such a lovely connection to the community and people who I'd never met when I was in this moment of just feeling not only lonely but just sort of in the midst of, of this ridiculousness.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, that's. I mean I've heard stories of people like just going to the airport and giving tens rides to places because you know, they were stuck or there were no rental cars or like. And Bobby is great by the way. We love Bobby. I think he's Bobby in Erie now, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I think so.

[Luke Burbank]

He's running the Eerie Philharmonic. But yeah, like just the way that the tens of listeners really look out for each other and are just always there. And it's like I say it a lot this week, but it's like you all are really the kind of the secret sauce of this whole show. And it's sort of like what my mom does with her own children, except maybe in a slightly less, I don't know, way. So my mom's way of generally speaking, helping her kids out is to have her other kids help her kids out. So, like, if one of us is dealing with something, she'll get on the horn with one of the other ones and go, hey, could you go help out with this? Or so and so's, you know, of my siblings is got this going on. Could you, like, take care of that for them? That's like us with the tens. We're not that helpful. But you all are so helpful with each other that we. It feels, you know, like we're kind of helping.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. That's why you have so many kids, I guess.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, definitely.

[Caller Alicia]

And that's. That's why you guys brought on John too, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes.

[Andrew Walsh]

My large adult.

[John Skloroff]

These are my daddies.

[Caller Alicia]

Yes, exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, thank you for sharing that story with us. And I'm glad you made it to Oakland in one piece. So it just turned into a red eye, apparently, right? Eventually.

[Caller Alicia]

Exactly. Yes. And whatever plans I had for the next day did not. Did not happen as planned. But it's all right.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm glad that it was able to draw you and Bobby and pilot Will closer together. So, hey, thanks for calling in. Thanks for being part of tbtl, and I'll see you in the Boston area when it's time for the marathon.

[Caller Alicia]

Okay, Fantastic.

[Sherry]

I can't wait.

[Caller Alicia]

Thanks, guys.

[Andrew Walsh]

Bye, Alicia.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, you know, we've actually got. You know what? We can play this little sound effect. I. You know, I brought these all the way out from Southern Washington. I might as well get some use out of them. We still haven't figured out if we're gonna try to get a refund on that.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's not from a female.

[Luke Burbank]

Speaking of the tens and donations and emails and things, John had sent over a couple of. A couple of emails from the tens that were kind of sweet, kind of notable this week related to the Thawne. Let's see here. And comments. Oh, this is from. It's okay if I use folks name. Maybe just their first name. Is that okay?

[John Skloroff]

Yeah, certainly. First name.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm guessing that if somebody emailed us, they had a sense that, you know, we might share this with people. This is from listener Madeline, who says, I've been listening to tbtl since day one.

[John Skloroff]

Whoa.

[Luke Burbank]

I was 10 years old and I Would look forward to going to bed each night to listen on my clock radio.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh my God, Madeline.

[Luke Burbank]

Same, same. I was a clock radio kid. I was obsessed with listening to the radio. I would get so excited to like I was listening to the weirdest of Larry King Live or Sally Jesse Raphael or talknet with Bruce Williams. And then later on Loveline. I really loved. I was a grown up by then, but I'm now 28 and I recently badly broke my leg trying to be young and adventurous. Sorry, Madeline. I wasn't able to walk for months and I was stuck at home in my walk up apartment. I'm so grateful TBTL was there to keep me company. What you do is so important, Madeline. Thank you for listening to this since day one. That's wild. 10 years old tuning into Cairo radio. I wonder if that was if Madeline's folks were just had it on in the house or Madeline was just kind of a precocious 10 year old and

[Andrew Walsh]

now where is it? Present tense, Broken leg or is it. Is that what it says? Or was. Are we on the heel? Are we on the mend?

[Luke Burbank]

I'm 28 now and recently badly broke my leg. So recent. Sounds recent.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hope you're getting on the other side of that.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Madeline, thank you for. Thanks for checking in. Thanks for being here since day one. Jared said, special shout out to the love of my life who has been a 10 of yours for years. I adopted the 10 hood a year ago and I regret not listening to her about this amazing show in years past. Love you, Bree.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's very sweet.

[Luke Burbank]

Bri has been listening to the show and was telling Jared about it. And Jared, as, let's be honest, as we men so often are, he was just being kind of bullheaded about the whole situation. And now Jared is listening and loves the show, which is nice to hear. That's. I mean, starting to listen in the last year makes Jared a very.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my gosh.

[Luke Burbank]

Like a preemie.

[Andrew Walsh]

Just a zygote.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, doesn't even. Can't. Like barely. Can barely see the world. Can barely make out colors.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's right. Be careful with his head.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[John Skloroff]

At what point does 10 hood start? Is it at.

[Andrew Walsh]

Let's not do this.

[John Skloroff]

No, we're not.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, yeah. That was one of those ones that right when we started it was like, what's the logical extension of this conversation and how. And how do we pull it back? Let's see. Scott said, I'm watching the show at work at the pot shop.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, nice.

[Luke Burbank]

Scott, if you have Any recommendations on the kind of pot I should get into? I'm all ears. I've been really meaning to explore a relationship with a healthy amount, a small amount of marijuana. I've never really done it. I feel like it's probably healthier than, let's say, ethanol, and I just need to figure out my deal with it. So if you work at a pot shop, maybe, you know, maybe you can give me some advice. Anyway, Scott says, I'm watching you at the pot shop. I'm usually a bedtime listener, but here we are. The question is, what if TBTL went away? I don't want to be stumbling around looking for similar content. You guys and Jen have been a great sidebar to my life for 15 plus years, and I love you guys. Take my money today and I will be here to donate next year also. Good luck. Jumping frog life.

[Andrew Walsh]

I love that. Do we have. We use a system called Donorbox. People come to tbtl.net, and that's how they donate. But there's a back end mechanism called Donorbox. And John, you're the one who runs that. Do we have like some sort of way for people to donate Dank Nugs via DonorBox?

[John Skloroff]

I think they would have to go through as a physical item, the PO Box. But then I think that's trafficking drugs.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Let's not mail. So even legal, even legal substances, let's not, let's not mail them.

[John Skloroff]

But if you, like show up to like a TBT event, like the 5,000th episode next year, we could take. We could take things in person.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Wow. You're like, you're really pushing it.

[John Skloroff]

Well, you.

[Andrew Walsh]

I just, I just wanted to say dank nugs.

[Luke Burbank]

I just. And, and I just meant generally. I can use some advice on the topic, but don't.

[John Skloroff]

I was looking out for you guys.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Please do not bring any drugs to the 5,000th episode.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good Lord. And please don't bring any drugs to the. To the frog jump on Sunday. We're trying to. I'm still trying to impress these people.

[Luke Burbank]

Unless they are performance enhancing for the days. If anybody has the cream or the clear or any kind of horny goat weed. Actually, they don't need that.

[Andrew Walsh]

They're.

[Luke Burbank]

They're all horned up, as you can hear from that. You know, it's interesting, Scott mentioning about, like, you know, if the show were to go away and that whole thing because, you know, I'm a big Howard Stern show listener and he's now going down to. Once a week, I believe. I think When I think they're on summer break, but when they come back from the summer break, he's. Now, the rumor is the word on the street is they're going down to once a week. And my relationship with that show is it's not quite as intense, maybe, as some of the ten's relationship is with tbtl, but it is a thing that I really love. And I know that, you know, he's not getting any younger, and he certainly made all the money that he needs for the rest of his life. And he's constantly talking about how, like, he wants to retire and stuff. And, like, you know, it. As a fan of the show, it's like I'm trying to. I have to sort of grapple with, like, oh, what's it gonna be like when that show does not exist? And it went from being, you know, five days a week to three days a week to.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, three days a week in about three months of the year. Right, True. Pull back a lot.

[Luke Burbank]

And then two days a week, he just signed a new contract, and it was two days a week. And now, again, the rumor is wow. In the New York Post, who doesn't like him because he aligned himself with Kamala, that he's going down to one day a week. And all that is to say we're gonna stay at five days a week for the foreseeable future because. Well, because we like doing this, and you all have been nice enough to support it all these years, so, Scott, you don't have to worry about us. But, yeah, we're gonna be doing this for a long time.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm sorry, I don't. I'm gonna start a sentence, and I don't have a good answer for it. I'm trying to figure out what the. What the New York Post's headline would be. Stern burns his listeners. That's. Yeah, it's not really good because they have the creative headlines. Right? And so they do.

[Luke Burbank]

That's all. I have such a complicated relationship with that newspaper. I would say it's in the top four papers I read every day, and I, like, actively hate it.

[Andrew Walsh]

What about Howie? Wowee. Stern goes down to one day a week, maybe.

[Luke Burbank]

Although wowee.

[Andrew Walsh]

Seems.

[John Skloroff]

That seems like more like a Marine Dowd headline.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

It's. It's. Yeah. I sit there and I, like, hate read the New York Post. I get so many. They just said, you know, Howards End. There we go.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm sorry to interrupt you.

[Luke Burbank]

That's good. Ding. That's good. That's also.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's Howard's End. We got it. We got.

[Luke Burbank]

That's assuming. I think that's a great headline. That's assuming that anyone who reads the New York Post is familiar with the film Howard's End.

[Andrew Walsh]

Can I mention that I. Because I'm guessing that I don't know if we have any.

[John Skloroff]

Call.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do we have any more callers on the line? We don't have anybody on the line right now. I'm feeling very, very with. Wistful today as we wrap this up. Because I was saying to my parents when we were visiting them the other day, you know, coming back to Valley City and coming back to specifically be inside the school was a dream of mine for a long time. Like, this school is where I grew up. And I have such specific memories inside these walls. And sometimes when I'd come visit my folks, we would just kind of, I don't know, kill some time, drive around Valley City, see the old sites. And we would drive around the parking lot here and we'd say, well, there's the old school. But I was like, well, I'll never go inside it again. It's not a school anymore. And I assumed it was very different inside here. I didn't know that, like, so much of. So much of the structure around us has actually been preserved or at least not renovated or changed. And it's been so exciting to be here. And again, Luke, you weren't here for this. I'm kind of glad of that because I was probably acting pretty embarrassingly, but like, John, you were here when I was freaking out, when I saw the old cafeteria, it was adorable. And I was seeing things that I was. That I hadn't even remembered. And then seeing things that I did remember and having confirmation. Oh, that's what it looked like. This is Mrs. Linder's room or whatever it was. And then to see the floor of the cafeteria. And I had forgotten about that jazzy, snazzy linoleum floor in there that they have. And I was having some real freak outs when we got here. And now here it is now we've been working out of this building for a few days and so the novelty sort of wears off a little bit. And so I'm trying to. Like before the show today, I'm kind of wandering around, trying to take it all in one last time because maybe this is the last time, you know, I don't know. But it was kind of special to think that. Oh, well. And of course, all I had to do probably was find somebody who worked here and asked could I Get a tour, you know. But it seemed like I would never be in this building again. And now I have a key to this building, and I've had a key to this building and I've made several copies of it.

[Luke Burbank]

Brian, you didn't hear that.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, of course I didn't. And it's also an electronic fob. I don't even know if you can do that. But if anybody knows how to dupe these things. No, of course I don't want to do that. But it's just kind of like, oh, wow. Yeah, I thought I'd never be here again, but now here I am with a key. We could, you know, come and go as we please. Everybody here has been so nice and special, but I'm trying to, like, just drink up the nostalgia one last time. You know what I mean? I kind of don't have a word for what. For all of my nostalgia junkie ism. I've never had this particular experience before, and I'm kind of like, just trying to drink it up before. We kind of. Because we're going to tear all of our stuff down here a little bit and say goodbye, you know?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I mean, next year we're going to have to do it from the Lighthouse Ranch, right, girl? That's the only way we can. Which doesn't even exist.

[Andrew Walsh]

I believe it's actually been a little bit more nervous, honestly. Do we get out of there? Like, once you check out anytime you want.

[Luke Burbank]

You don't want to do the show from the cult that I grew up in as a kid.

[John Skloroff]

You guys want to do Brookside elementary next year in Yorktown?

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, this has just been a really special week, and I'm not trying to rush us out the door here if we want to take more calls, but I just wanted to share that with you. I'm just going feeling very, very wistful on this Friday. And again, thanks, Tenz, for joining us on this journey.

[Luke Burbank]

Let me ask you, Andrew, because this was so personal for you this week. Has it gone sort of the way you expected? Has it been more nostalgic?

[Andrew Walsh]

A little less than a concerned? Better. Like, I love seeing that. I mean, there's small things that wouldn't mean anything to you guys, but just like when I first came in this room and saw that they still just have like, the heating unit over there that looks like. Like, what is that design? Kind of 1960s design or whatever. And like.

[Luke Burbank]

And honestly, like, hold on, wait a second, Andrew. I worked really hard on Memories are made only Use this one time. You must remember this. Memories. Bring back Memories bring back your.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

What were you noticing in the room when you walked in?

[Andrew Walsh]

Just like the fixtures and going into one room and seeing the lights, those really old school hanging fluorescent lights that are again, probably 50s or I'm guessing maybe 60s or whatever. Just small little details. To see the hallway floor, to look down and be like, oh, yeah, the floor hasn't changed. And it's. That was actually. I don't know if I said this on the show on Monday. That was a little bit of a. As I was going on my nostalgia journey with the guys showing us around, they kept on taking everything I said with as a little bit of a slight, I think, because I'm like, nothing has changed. This floor is the same. They're like, yeah, we gotta change the floor. Like, don't. Don't change the floor. I love that. It's the same floor that little Andy was stomping around when. When he was running for. For class president, apparently, or vice president. Sorry, I got ahead of myself there. But yeah, so seeing all that, I would say that it's paid off way more than I thought it would. That is preserved way more than I thought. The fact that, like, I literally saw some of these shelves in a classroom that I not just remember, but there's photos of me like goofing around in front of these blue shelves that used to be filled with little golden books or whatever it was, you know, and now they're. And that was kind of an interesting thing. But to see the stage where I performed again, as I told you, I was number one, Iowa starstruck.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm really more of a California Raisins guy myself.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. But I'm, you know, I'll sign both as Santa and as a California Raisin if you want my autograph.

[Luke Burbank]

As we're wrapping things up here, I just want to say again, a huge thanks to all of the tens.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

For supporting the show and for jumping on YouTube and watching us and chopping it up on Facebook and the slack and all those places. We are again, so, so grateful. Thank you also to everybody here at the Liverpool Township, the Daves, our friend Brian, the various folks that are on the town council here, the township council, like, they were really game about this, you know, I think I sent them an email very much out of the blue that just said, hi, I co host a podcast with somebody who grew up near where you all are doing this thing. And I'm wondering if we could come do the podcast from. From Your town. And they just rolled out the red carpet for us and set everything up and again, installed not one, but two air conditioning units in this room so that we wouldn't roast alive. And they've just been so nice to us. And they're giving, like, they don't usually let you pick when you're gonna be in the frog jump contest, but they're kind of helping me out with that for our purposes and the CBS stuff. So I just want to say thanks to them as well. And again, thanks, Andrew and John, both you guys, for, like, all of the work. I mean, I think it was the frogs who said it the best when they hacked into my account the other day and sent out an email.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, sure.

[Luke Burbank]

It's like the amount of work that you're both doing in the lead up to the show and then in the posting of the show and the managing all of the donations and different questions and stuff. While I'm generally looking at TikTok is honestly, it's unprofessional of me. So I'm gonna step my game up. But thanks to both of you for all of, like, getting here Sunday, lugging this incredibly heavy desk when there was no air conditioning going on. I'm amazed you guys won't. And maybe you were just, like, kind of cursing under your breath at me for lollygagging.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, we curse over our breath at you.

[Luke Burbank]

That's fair.

[Andrew Walsh]

And so you will know. But I do have a little update. So we had a little sidebar conversation. I think this is interesting. So this desk that you're sitting behind, this is like one of the teacher's desks that was here when I was so heavy. This desk that I'm sitting behind, the student desk, I remember this. And also the older one that John has. I remember these very, very well. I spent many hours when I talk about stories of, like, playing seven up or just having to put our heads on our desk because our class was being rambunctious. I can still smell the cleaning solution that used to be on this desk, you know what I mean? With my nose pressed to it. And so that's been fun. But the thing is, these were in a different room, including this teacher's desk. Now, this teacher's desk is heavy.

[John Skloroff]

A metric ton.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is so heavy. And John and I took this from a storage room down the hall. It's the last door in the hall. We carried it, and somebody even said, you can use a cart for this. And we didn't. We just carried it. Now the carts are gone. The carts are in use out at the frog jump, so we can't use a cart anymore. And John and I, and I think you were a part of this, Luke, before the show were saying, so do we have to return this desk or can we just leave it here and maybe the maintenance crew will take it back or something? And you know, John seems strong. You know, I'm all for this. John, you said, well, we should definitely. We should at least try. If the door is unlocked, we should do it. We should leave things how we found it. And I agree with that, generally speaking. But I was like, yeah, but the, the storage room door is probably locked. We can't just take it out to the hallway.

[Luke Burbank]

Low key. We were very much hoping that we would not have access to where this desk goes, therefore could plausibly say we didn't take it down there because we couldn't get in.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly.

[John Skloroff]

High key.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And then I saw our friend Brian and in the hallway, oh, dear. I tried not to make eye contact with him. I tried to just walk by as quickly as possible.

[Luke Burbank]

Say desk.

[Andrew Walsh]

I pretended I was on the phone.

[Luke Burbank]

Desk. And you said, hi, desk. How's your desk?

[Andrew Walsh]

I was on my phone, I was yelling, buy, buy, sell, sell. I was trying to look busy.

[Luke Burbank]

No.

[Andrew Walsh]

But he was unlocking the door and said, okay, don't forget to take.

[Luke Burbank]

Take.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is where the desk goes. And I said, well, what about one of those cards? He's like, those are gone now. So, Luke, all of this.

[Luke Burbank]

I blame Gandalf's.

[Andrew Walsh]

All of this is to say this is your opportunity to make it up to us.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, you.

[John Skloroff]

I like this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Have a date with this desk.

[Luke Burbank]

I have a date with destiny

[Andrew Walsh]

and show title.

[Luke Burbank]

All right, we got there. I am, I am not looking forward to moving this thing, but it's the very least I can do since you guys put so much work into getting this all set up. So again, thanks to both of you, thanks to everybody out there in podcast land for listening to this and spending this week with us. We really appreciate it. Thanks Shout out to Bob and Joyce for feeding us Lakewood's finest pizza.

[Andrew Walsh]

That pizza at around 2:30 in the morning last night.

[Luke Burbank]

It was great.

[Andrew Walsh]

It was exactly what I needed.

[Luke Burbank]

We're gonna be back here on Monday with more imaginary radio for all of you.

[Andrew Walsh]

We'll let you know how the frog jump went.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. It's going to be a special new episode that will be. We're going to actually record it on Sunday. Throughout the kind of lead up and then the actual frog jumping that we're going to do with our Dave. So please do join us for that. In the meantime, have a great rest of your Friday. Have an amazing weekend. Stay safe, take care of yourselves, don't breathe in too much smoky air, and please remember, no mountain too tall.

[Andrew Walsh]

And good luck to all.

[Luke Burbank]

Rabb.

[Caller Alicia]

Power out.