#4780 Family Time / Funky Bunch Time

Summary

TBTL #4780: Family Time / Funky Bunch Time

Podcast: TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
Hosts: Luke Burbank & Andrew Walsh
Date: July 28, 2026
Duration: ~1 hour, 13 minutes
Main Theme:
A laid-back, meandering conversation between friends about baseball, nostalgia, oddball news stories, modern adult routines, snack foods, and the quirks of everyday life—including funky schedules, pizza deserts, and the ever-present challenge of following historically disappointing sports teams.

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Episode Overview

Luke and Andrew spend this "Tuesday edition" of TBTL in classic form: riffing off each other about the deep (and shallow) matters of their lives and the broader world. Baseball heartbreak, uniform controversies, the cost of pizza, and the irresistible pull of nostalgia all get their due. The tone is breezy and sardonic, with self-aware detours and warm reminiscence.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Studio Transience and Rocking Chairs (01:23—06:52)

• Luke reflects on his long history of studios for TBTL, often forgetting which he’s broadcasting from, now at the "Madrona Hill studio…high above the mighty Columbia."
• He discusses his newfound preference for a classic, knockoff Herman Miller-style chair ("I have an involuntary habit...I’m rocking for about 80% of the program." — Luke, 06:51), realizing he comes off less professional on video, inspired by the show's recent foray into video for donors.

2. Listener Feedback & The Iliad/Oedipus Mixup (03:03—04:40)

• They read YouTube comments from their video podcast, including a correction that “the death of Achilles is in The Iliad.”
• Andrew jokes about their small but devoted video audience: "Literally tens of people watched it." (03:44)

3. Baseball Nostalgia & Mariners Woes (07:14—16:58)

• The "Miracle on Dirt" Mariners game (June 7, 2017) sparks a recap of how baseball used to feel like a gift—contrasted with current jadedness after recent Mariners failures.
• “I just want to figure out how to get in touch with that sweet spirit... where it was like every game was a gift.” — Luke (11:06)
• They elaborate on shifting expectations as fans and the toll a tough season takes, including reflections on meaningful games, bad contracts (e.g., with Robbie Ray), and the existential burden of being a committed sports fan.

4. Mets Uniform Controversy & Emma Stone Movie Shoot (16:58—22:36; 28:56—33:02)

• Luke reports that the Mets (already having a dismal season) changed their uniforms for a movie shoot starring Emma Stone and Chris Pine ("The Catch"), potentially upsetting already-frustrated fans.
• “If I came to a Mariners game and...they are lining their pockets with an Emma Stone shoot...I’m gonna be in high dudgeon.” — Luke (22:36)
• Andrew is unfazed: “I don’t know, I just don’t think I would be that worked up about it.” (43:39)

5. Mark Wahlberg’s Insane Daily Routine (28:29—33:48)

• The hosts dissect Mark Wahlberg’s much-publicized, hyper-structured schedule (“2:45am: Prayer time, aka stay prayed up.” — Luke, 29:35), marveling at how arbitrary the early hours are and pondering the point ("Why does he need to be awake at 2:30 for prayer and workout?" — Luke, 34:32).
• Mark’s schedule involves multiple showers, snack times (“90-minute snack??” — Andrew, 31:27), workouts with "the funky bunch", and cryo chamber sessions.
• Andrew draws parallels to his own odd hours worked for radio, noting the counterintuitive joys of being out of sync with the rest of society.

6. Sports Uniform Culture, Fan Experience, and Merch (43:07—48:14)

• Discussion on “City Connect” jerseys (cash grabs by MLB teams) and whether it’s more painful to have a team lose expensively or lose cheaply.
• Andrew, a “uniform guy,” is mostly unbothered by uniform shake-ups for movie shoots but is critical of MLB’s new designs and merchandising tactics.
• Critical ranking of jerseys for everyday wear: Hockey = least flattering; Football = also not great; Baseball = surprisingly versatile. (46:40—47:13)

7. "Bunk Journalism"—Domino’s as a “Beloved Pizza Chain” (49:18—54:31)

• Luke finds a paywalled Oregonian article (picked up from MLive.com) touting a Domino’s half-off deal, headlined “Beloved pizza chain offering 50% off.”
• They mock the idea that Domino’s is “beloved”: “I have ordered Domino’s a thousand times...It’s just not...But I never beloved it.” — Luke (54:16)
• Commentary on the state of local news, advertorial content, and journalistic standards.

8. The High Cost of Pizza & Living in a “Pizza Desert” (56:01—59:13)

• Both hosts lament the rising cost of delivered pizza ("It’s just so ridiculously expensive...I got a large pizza delivered to my house and it was over $50 last time." — Andrew, 56:29), as well as difficulties in finding affordable, good pizza nearby.
• Both admit to loading up online pizza carts and then bailing due to sticker shock.

9. Nostalgia, Old Radio Airchecks, and Media Digitization (35:02—44:02)

• Luke discusses his trove of old cassette and DAT airchecks, and the emotional pull of nostalgia. Andrew mentions digitizing old tapes for friends and family.
• The hosts share favorite old radio stories and the power of physical archives.

10. Candy & Snack Food Tangent (66:39–73:25)

• The show closes on the unexpectedly passionate subject of candy, especially nerd gummy clusters and jelly beans—how relationships develop household candy “brands,” and the strange rituals of impulse buying.
• “Now you guys are a jelly belly family, and you probably will remain so for the rest of your natural lives, right?” — Luke (72:09)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On audience engagement (03:44):
  "Literally tens of people watched it." — Andrew
• On Mariners nostalgia (11:06):
  "I just want to figure out how to get in touch with that sweet spirit that you used to have where it was like every game was a gift." — Luke
• Burbank Sports Pessimism (11:39):
  "Here’s what I think. I think that they’re going to win tonight against the Dodgers. And the reason is there’s no reason you should think they’re going to win. This is my classic Burbankian theory of all sports..." — Luke
• On Mark Wahlberg’s routine (29:35):
  "2:45am: Prayer time, a.k.a. stay prayed up." — Luke
• Domino’s “beloved” (54:16):
  "I have ordered Domino’s a thousand times... It’s just not… but I never beloved it." — Luke
• On the pain of pizza prices (56:29):
  "It is so ridiculously expensive. I think I got a large pizza delivered to my house and it was over $50 last time." — Andrew
• On favorite snacks (72:09):
  "Now you guys are a jelly belly family, and you probably will remain so for the rest of your natural lives, right?" — Luke

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Topic | |-----------|-------| | 01:23 | Luke’s studio history & chair rocking| | 03:03 | Listener YouTube comments & Achilles correction| | 07:14 | Mariners Miracle on Dirt & baseball nostalgia| | 11:06 | Losing sports innocence, Mariners jadedness| | 16:58 | Mets uniform/Emma Stone movie & sports movie tropes| | 28:29 | Mark Wahlberg’s schedule, staying “prayed up”| | 35:02 | Nostalgic airchecks, radio stories, digitization| | 43:07 | Sports uniforms, team cash-grabs, merch philosophy| | 49:18 | Oregonian “beloved pizza chain” bunk journalism| | 56:01 | The high cost of modern pizza delivery| | 66:39 | Gummy bears, nerd clusters, and relationship snacks| | 72:09 | The formation of snack food household identities| | 73:25 | Outro & sign off|

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Tone & Language

• Affectionately sardonic and self-deprecating.
• Conversational, full of callbacks, inside jokes (“stay prayed up”), and affectionate ribbing of each other and audience.
• Reflective, particularly when discussing nostalgia and the loss of youthful fandom innocence.

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For New Listeners

Jump into this episode for pure TBTL—a meandering but heartfelt check-in between funny, longtime pals. Whether you care about Seattle sports, Mark Wahlberg’s odd life choices, or just want to hear relatable gripes about the cost of pizza, Luke and Andrew’s easy banter and tangents are the main attraction. This episode is less about headlines and more about laughing through life’s little frustrations with a friend.

Transcript

[Luke Burbank]

We like different things, and that's okay. Cause we just like different things. Me and my mom like our eggs different way, and that's okay. My mom likes them fried. I like them scrambled with cheese.

[Andrew Walsh]

TBTL.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm gonna suggest that we have a little constructive talking time. Not long at all. I mean, maybe 10 minutes or. Okay. Or maybe 15 is also good.

[Andrew Walsh]

But it'll be so amazing.

[Luke Burbank]

You'll love it.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's gonna be the best ever. I love this show. Do I wish our fans were a little more hip? Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Do I wish they were a tad

[Andrew Walsh]

more on top of their. Absolutely. Do they have a confused look in their eyes like a dog that's heard a strange sound? Yeah. But strap that dog to a sled and, baby, you'll be flying across the tundra. Hey, can we get back to the funny?

[Luke Burbank]

All right. Hello, good morning, and welcome, everyone, to a Tuesday edition of tbtl. The show just might be too beautiful to live.

[Andrew Walsh]

The vibes will be the illest, and the jams.

[Luke Burbank]

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

[Andrew Walsh]

Hey, cheer up. It's Taco Tuesday.

[Luke Burbank]

Coming to you from the. What do we call it out here, the Madrona Hill studio, perched high above the mighty Columbia. That's a strong start to the show. I have done this show from. Well, how many. Let's see, going back to the Mount Baker Studio and then Studio de Bajo, the same house. And then the post office in Port Townsend, and then the Burbank Springs Broadcast center, and then in Portland. I forget what we were calling the Portland one. And now out here at the Madrona Hill studio. So, yeah, okay, it's reasonable that sometimes I would forget where I am. I have not forgotten that we are at episode 4780 in a collector series. Let the fun begin. That's because I have it written down right here on my show sheet. I was reading the Oregonian this morning, as I tend to, and saw some bunk journalism. I'd like to point out to anybody watching this is really bunk journalism. Also noticed that the New York Mets, who have put their fans through a lot, and this is coming from a Mariners fan. New York Mets have put their fans through quite a lot and I think did something that. I don't know. I wouldn't be happy if they made. Let's just say it was a Mariners game and the Mariners had to change their uniforms because of Emma Stone.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my God.

[Luke Burbank]

That's so crazy. Why talk about that? And we'll try to not let it descend into Mariner's Talk because we already foamed that off for a good 30 minutes before the show with this guy. Speaking of uniforms, in an age of uniformity, he's quite the opposite, an authentic subversive. He's also the longest running cobra of the show, maybe best known for his depictions of the tall ships. He's Andrew Walsh and he's joining me right now. Good morning, my friend.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good morning, Luke. You know, right before we started recording, either you or I said something that reminded me that we videotaped ourselves. Do you call it videotaping? We recorded ourselves via video for yesterday's podcast. It was released the usual way, but also donors got a email with a video link if you wanted to see us do yesterday's show. But it did not occur to me to go in this morning and see how many people watched that or what have you. And I went in. Literally tens of people watched it. So. So we're on brand with that.

[Luke Burbank]

Nine of those were me.

[Andrew Walsh]

Nine of them were you? One of them was. Looks like Susie B. But also what I'm seeing here are comments. Now, this is interesting. I think people are more likely to comment on a YouTube video than, say, our website or something, which also has commenting ability. And a lot of people just saying, this is very special. Love seeing this. Somebody just bragging that they were the first commenter. I love that. Although I see something here that I think you'll be interested in. It says the death of Achilles is in the Iliad. So that's very close to what you were saying. There was some confusion yesterday because the Iliad and the Odyssey are like.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, I was not as wrong as I've been about other things, but I was effectively wrong because I was saying something about how maybe I thought Achilles had done that to Oedipus, and that was not.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, the Oedipus thing was off. Okay, sure. Yeah. Also, somebody wants to know if you're sitting at a standing desk. I don't know.

[Luke Burbank]

I am sitting at a standing desk. This is a desk that does go up and down. I hesitate to.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, now we're not releasing this on video, but maybe we should.

[Luke Burbank]

I've got a lot of, like, equipment that's kind of locked down to the desk, so I have to be careful. I. For speaking of my old broadcast haunts, when I was in doing the show from Portland, I would always sort of stand, I think, typically, while I would do the show. And then I had one of those ergonomic chairs, too. And then one day I just Decided that I liked sitting in a comfortable chair. Like ergonomic is often code for not comfortable because the whole idea is it's keeping you engaged. It's not letting you just like fully kind of like to use our show she or show title from yesterday, slouch right on into things. And, and so I, you know, I was sitting on that chair for years and years and then I just one day decided to use this other chair that I now have, which you can see.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh yeah, that's a nice classic looking, very classic office chair. What do you call that style?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, it's. I think it's in the style of like a Herman Miller kind of style of chair, but it's a knockoff because Herman Miller's kind of expensive but. Or it's in that, it's in that kind of mid century. You know, it's got steel and leather or whatever. But what I realized, because I did actually watch some of the show, I was very excited about the video feature. I was really excited that I could show you the video of last week tonight when I was getting roasted by John Oliver. And the fact that we were putting this out as again, a visual product and that we can put little like I'm going to tell you a little bit later about some bunk journalism and I've actually got screencaps of the article to kind of build my case and stuff. So I was pretty psyched about it. So I went back and watched a little bit of it. I wanted to see how the video playing went and just maybe the top of the show. And what I realized is I have an involuntary habit that I don't even realize I'm doing because this chair that I sit in also kind of rocks back. It's on a little sort of a fulcrum point or whatever and I quite like rocking in it. But it does, it does make me look a little silly on the video. I didn't realize that I'm rocking for about 80% of the program.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no. I thought you looked like a nice chill, bro. I obviously have fidgeting issues. In fact, I'm getting out my fidget spinner here. I'm thinking maybe this is what's going to solve the issue for me. I knew that A blast from the past. This is literally the one that we acquired in the RV on our RV trip. Remember, somebody gave these to Miracle on Dirt. Was these from.

[Luke Burbank]

Remember those days? Yes, the Mariners sucked, but it was sort of okay. For some reason. We didn't have any expectations.

[Andrew Walsh]

Do you know, we just Missed the anniversary of the Miracle on Dirt. It might. I think it was right before we headed to Valley City for the.

[Luke Burbank]

And that was a young. A young Cal Raleigh. A Cal Raleigh who would still eventually. I remember when we started the show.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, that wasn't Cal Ray. Oh.

[Luke Burbank]

It was Mike Zunino.

[Andrew Walsh]

Zanino. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike Zanino Zanino.

[Luke Burbank]

Or as I call him, young Cal Raleigh against the middle.

[Andrew Walsh]

Middle boy.

[Luke Burbank]

He got it. He got it.

[Andrew Walsh]

He got.

[Luke Burbank]

Mike Zanino just walked off. Minnesota. Sorry, Twins fans, you and I in an RV lot in, I want to say, New Mexico.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think that was New Mexico. Yes. Or Arizona.

[Luke Burbank]

Like a happy dance.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Because that was the. Obviously the ninth inning. Were we losing that game?

[Andrew Walsh]

We were come back. It was a comeback from behind. Actually, it was June. It wasn't July, So it was June 7, 2017. Zanino walk off. But I do have that on my calendar. We got to remember to celebrate that properly, because next year will be the 10th anniversary of the Miracle on Dirt.

[Luke Burbank]

See, I want to go back to that, though, because. Are you able to check again? I'm sorry. I know I said we weren't going to talk about baseball, but now we're talking about baseball. Can you go back on the computer and tell me what our.

[Andrew Walsh]

I can go back on the computer.

[Luke Burbank]

A computer.

[Andrew Walsh]

I had a computer, but it broke.

[Luke Burbank]

What's that?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know. I don't know. I think maybe somebody sent it in.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm curious what the Mariners record was in when the Miracle on Dirt happened and where they were in the American League west, because what I remember about that time, that special time in our friendship and into the history of tbtl, was we were driving around that rv and I feel like we were listening to games when, you know, we had a chance or could tune into them. And I don't remember feeling as terrible as I feel right now after we went in and lost three of four to Texas. Like, you and I before the show today were just kind of, like, venting, like, how do we get in touch with that version of ourselves where we were. My guess is that that was a relatively meaningless game, right? Or am I totally misremembering?

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm thinking it was meaningless, but there was. It was also a time when the idea of a meaningless game was meaningless to me. I was just so, like, I was so new to baseball that it just. Every game just sort of felt like a gift. And, like, at that point, I was like, well, the. I've never seen the Mariners do anything. So just winning a game was always exciting for me. Like, I just didn't give up on the season the way, like, long time fans would. I'm trying to figure out what our record was, but it's my understanding that, that that was not a quote unquote, meaningful game. I'm trying to figure out. Figure it out as I'm speaking here. But. But anyway. But it was just so much fun and you know what I mean, that's sort of the fun of it. Last year going, you know, relatively deep into the playoffs, we'll just say deep into the playoffs, you know, sort of set this expectation and then, you know, kind of coming back with a stronger team this year on paper, and then just seeing it squandered is just really it. I was telling you before the show, it's just like, I don't want to watch this series. I mean, the hatred that I have for the Dodgers is also, like, sort of clouding things as well. But, like, I don't feel like just, you know, watching the Mariners just like go into that grist mill.

[Luke Burbank]

We were 30 and 30.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, okay.

[Luke Burbank]

That win.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, oh, okay. So actually, you know, but. But I wonder what the division was doing then. We're below.500 right now, which is just ridiculous.

[Luke Burbank]

Winning pitcher Edwin Diaz.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, he's closing for us. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course.

[Luke Burbank]

Runs in the bottom of the ninth.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, we went into the. We went into the ninth. Five, four. Right. And then came out six, five.

[Luke Burbank]

I. I just want to figure out how to get in touch with that sweet spirit that you used to have where it was like every game was a gift. How do we get.

[Andrew Walsh]

How did we become so into that?

[Luke Burbank]

Jaded?

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, it is. I do enjoy following more teams than I did at the time though, too. So that's kind of nice a little bit. Just like you kind of like I'll put on the game no matter. Kind of no matter what it is like Sunday night baseball or whatever. So I do. I mean, it's not like I've given up on baseball, but there is something very demoralizing about this particular Mariner season that we're living through. I do.

[Luke Burbank]

Famous last words. Here's what I think. I think that they're going to win tonight against the Dodgers. And the reason is there's no reason you should think they're going to win. This is my classic Burbankian theory of all sports, which is that when something is very unexpected because we just had a rough series against Texas and Texas, they ain't no Dodgers. So by all accounts, we're limping into Los Angeles with our tails between our legs. We are just not hitting, etc. By all accounts. Luckily, I'm. I shut down my Kelshi account and I can't use any sports betting gear, so I won't be putting any real money on this.

[Andrew Walsh]

But really, Bob Ferguson shut down your Kelshi account?

[Luke Burbank]

No, he. Believe me, he couldn't get his grubby mitts on this thing. He could try, but no, I shut it down because it's just too Trump associated for me.

[Andrew Walsh]

I do think it was shut down, though. Right. I don't think we can use it in Washington anymore. I mean, we. I've never tried, but I thought that, like a judge upheld. Whatever.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, yeah, but. Yeah, but the question was if Kalshee was going to abide.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, okay. I just kind of assumed the judge can't. Like, what a weird thing for me to assume in 2026 that somebody would do what a judge orders.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

What are you. Dad, I'm a child.

[Luke Burbank]

No, actually, you know what changed my mind on it was mostly I was doing it out of boredom and also to spite the listeners who gave me grief when I brought it up. But then I listened to an episode of why is this Happening With Chris Hayes? And he had on Bobby Allen.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was listening to that.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it was a great episode.

[Andrew Walsh]

I kept waiting. I don't know if I made it quite all the way to the end because I think, like, I don't know, my car came or something. But I was listening. I listened to almost that whole episode and I was just waiting, like, at one point, will Chris say so I got this friend and I might recognize some of the stories coming out of. Coming out of your.

[Luke Burbank]

I just, at the end of that episode, I was just like, I can't. I just can't. I can't. I can't throw any more money in their coffers. That's the real problem is I don't want to enrich them at all. And they're making all this money and they're paying no taxes on it. It almost makes you feel. It doesn't quite, but it almost makes you feel the slightest shred of sympathy for, like, good old draft kings who. For the fact that they are again, destroying the lives of many Americans. At least they are regulated and are paying taxes. And this was Bobby's point in that interview. So by the end of that, I was just like, yeah, I can't in good conscience Help this. But if I did, if I did it, I'm considering writing a book about betting called if I Bet It. I would actually bet heavy on the Mariners tonight because a. I bet you you're getting like a crazy odds because nobody thinks we're going to win. I think we're going to go in and just thump them tonight. I think Castillo is just going to absolutely. No, I can't even get through that. Castillo is going to get. Give up like four runs, but then

[Andrew Walsh]

he's going to hang in there. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

He's going to pull a Castillo where he gets totally knocked around for the first couple of innings, but then he somehow like settles in, locks in, and then he gives us like seven. I do think that they're going to win tonight just because on paper there's no reason to think they should win.

[Andrew Walsh]

Who. Who does Robbie Ray play for? We just faced him the other day. Is he with the Giants? And I turned on a game, kind of mid game or something. Yeah. And it reminded me of like how nice it is that he's just not on our team anymore. Even when he would throw a good game or two, like, I just hated him.

[Luke Burbank]

It was the guy who couldn't go

[Andrew Walsh]

to Canada because he wouldn't get his shots. Exactly. So we couldn't.

[Luke Burbank]

We're paying all this money for him and he can't pitch for us. The guy who. The last pitch I believe he threw as a Mariner was a massive home run to Jordan Alvarez.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, exactly. Which. Yeah, that was game two of the playoffs. Right.

[Luke Burbank]

I think it was some horrible meltdown against the Astros where we brought him in and he had one job which was don't groove a fastball to your Don Alvarez. Remember the. How we agreed to not talk about baseball?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. We're not talking about baseball. We're talking about the human condition.

[Luke Burbank]

And like to have a guy who we pay all this money for. For people that don't know. The Mariners got. Went out and got this pitcher named Robbie Ray, who really highly touted guy, except he turned out to be anti vax, which I'm going to assume also means maga and couldn't play in Canada because he wasn't vaccinated. And. And then for, you know, for all the money we're paying him, all he did was lose us a critical game in the playoffs by coming in in relief and completely crapping the bed. But I also take an anti vaxxer if at least they get over. That's the problem. That's. That's how that's how loose my morals are.

[Andrew Walsh]

But I do want to. I mean, speaking of maga crypto pariahsis of morals, I would like to just, like, sincerely, though, congratulate all of our Dodgers fans again on the White House visit and the Clayton Kershaw of it all and everything.

[Luke Burbank]

You can't.

[Andrew Walsh]

It must just be so don't act

[Luke Burbank]

that anger because it's only going to make it worse as. As Shohei Ohtani is hitting home runs to himself. He'll hit home run. He'll run to the stands. He'll catch it. He'll give it to a kid.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

He'll throw it back into the field. He'll throw it back out to the stands. He'll pitch a perfect game.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Could he throw a pitch that even he couldn't hit?

[Luke Burbank]

Ohtani throw a pitch so fast, even he couldn't bomb it out? I don't know. It's. It's just been one of those summers. Actually, you know what? Let's jump right into this because we're. We're talking about baseball now. It's a natural segue into this. Top Story.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hello and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

I actually thought of you when I saw this because you are as far. And you tell me that maybe Durs is even more a uniform.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah. Ders and Jarin are uniform junkies. I had a whole campaign to get them to start a podcast together, like, 10 years ago. They never did. They let other people take over. That space. Bums me out.

[Luke Burbank]

I am minimally aware of uniform stuff. Like, you're way, way, way higher up the chain of people who care about uniforms than I do. But I wondered how you would feel as a Mets fan now, also, for people that don't follow baseball, you know, I honestly think about this sometimes. It's a bummer what's happening to the Mariners this season and that we're not winning games. At least we're not the Mets. And I'm not saying that to be harsh on any of our friends who are Mets fans, including Hollywood power player Wynn Rosenfeld, who I don't think listens to the show anymore, but just thinking of you.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's my fault.

[Luke Burbank]

It was kind of a joint effort, both of us. I will just get an email out of the blue from Wynne, and he's just, like, powered, listen to like, 40 shows and has a lot of thoughts.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really?

[Luke Burbank]

Then, like, three years will go by. But the Mets have one of the highest payrolls in baseball, and what happened last season was they were leading their division by what seemed to be an insurmountable number of games through the first half. And they had this huge payroll and all these very, very expensive players, and. And they just totally collapsed. Like, they did not even make the playoffs, which was unthinkable. It's like you. They had to work very hard to collapse that bad. And that sucks. But then it's like, well, okay, maybe you, you know, you fire the manager, you. You fix some things and you still got this huge payroll. They've been worse this season. They didn't even have the part where they did real good and then fell apart. It's been a rough time to be a fan of that baseball team. And I say that with sincere peace and love to the people that root for them.

[Andrew Walsh]

Absolutely. Can I just say, I root for a team that is very frustrating to watch. And we often get frustrated by the management of the team and also just the front office of the team about the decisions to save money or make money, as opposed to putting money into the team and getting some splashy acquisitions or something like that. And here you. It must be strange to be a Mets fan. And I don't know, you know, I assume. I don't know, I feel like every time I bring up an ownership group, people are like, well, they're evil. It's like, yeah, maybe just I'm the

[Luke Burbank]

one who thought the Mets owner was a dj, so don't feel bad.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right? So, you know, I don't know what the backstory is or whatever, but I mean, also, it's kind of like, yeah, you name any team. And then they say, well, the ownership is terrible. It's like, yeah, maybe that says something about the billionaires running the country. The people who can afford baseball and football teams tend to be. Maybe have. Have bad politics in a lot of cases. Anyway, all that is to say, it just seems like it would be. I would be grate as a fan to say, well, at least my team is out there trying. Right? Like the Mets, even after last season, they picked up that. Weren't they kind of vacuuming up some big talent this off season?

[Luke Burbank]

It seems like they're kind of always doing that right now. But you're right. This raises the question, is it more painful to have your team drop a boatload of money and then be one of the worst teams in the National League, which the Mets are. They're in the last place in the NL East. Or to be a fan of a team where the owner is miserly and they don't spend very much money? I Kind of don't. I mean, I guess, honestly, I would take. At least they're spending the money. It's not working, but they're spending the money. Yeah, maybe, but okay, yeah, they, they,

[Andrew Walsh]

they got Boba Shet. That's what I was thinking of. I was like, who was the. Who was the. Who was the Blue Jay who went there as Boba Shet? And then of course, they took Jorge too, but Jorge. We're just glad that Jorge got a big rich. Got a big rich deal. But like that. That was a pretty risky acquisition, honestly.

[Luke Burbank]

How's Rango doing over there?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't. Well, he was injured. He got injured, like right away. So I don. Know how long he was out. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm wondering how you would feel. Let's say you were a Mets fan, Andrew, and also you're a person who does notice uniforms.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, I care. I.

[Luke Burbank]

Or something.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

If you showed up. Let's just say it's the Mariners.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now.

[Luke Burbank]

You show up on a Friday night game and the Mariners are not wearing

[Andrew Walsh]

their typical Friday night jerseys, which is a special jersey. Now it's that. Yeah, it's the Steelhead Steelheads jersey, which is the new.

[Luke Burbank]

Very nice looking.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Oh, actually, that's not true. They wouldn't be wearing that on Friday night. They'd be wearing their original city connect. The Steelhead. They have like two City connect. The Steelhead City connect would be on Sundays, but anyway. Yeah. So I kind of know on these special days what they're gonna be wearing.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, if you went to the game, let's just say you're a Mets fan and you go to the game and they're again, already playing pretty badly this year and they're not even wearing the uniforms they're supposed to wear. Why? Because Emma Stone is there shooting a movie and the filmmakers have talked the Mets into not wearing their regular jerseys because it somehow works with the plot of the film, which is not.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, they probably wanted. They were playing the Dodgers. Right. They probably wanted classic jerseys for both teams or I guess not throwback, but like not these, you know, kind of modern ones that.

[Luke Burbank]

Something that looked a little more modern. And I'm guessing that the Mets on some level also, you know, got paid for the. Certainly they got paid to give over part of the stadium for filming. Who knows if maybe the producers greased their palms with a. A couple of saw bucks to get him to wear the, you know, not the normal jerseys. But I would. I think I would be salty as, by the way, the Mets lost to The Dodgers that night. I would be salty if I came to a Mariners game and I had. The Mariners are lining their pockets. The team is lining their pockets with an Emma Stone shoot. And it means that the team is now making an exception. And then they lose on the night. I'm. You don't want to. You want to cross me on that light rail?

[Andrew Walsh]

Hmm.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm gonna be in high dudgeon.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't bug you? I don't think so. I think it's very circumstantial for me in these circumstances. I don't think would bother me. First of all, is Yorgos directing? Because if Yorgos is directing Emma Stone, then they can do whatever the hell they want. I will be there.

[Luke Burbank]

It sounds like I know nothing.

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't think it's a Yorgos direction. I don't think so either. That would be pretty funny, though.

[Luke Burbank]

Possibly the worst movie ever. It sounds like a movie that is erasing itself from your brain as you're watching it. I don't say that to be mean to Emma Stone, but it's starring Emma Stone and Chris Pine, and it's called the Catch.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Yeah. Some sort of, like, rom com.

[Luke Burbank]

Baseball themed rom com thing where they, you know, they're at a baseball game and maybe she catches a ball or something. I don't know.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, Chris Pine, by the way. Not Chris Pratt. I was picturing Chris.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, did I say Chris?

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no, no, you said. You said Pine. I. I just. I think I said ew or something, which isn't right to Chris Pratt either. It's just like he's in those. But have you seen those commercials? Pride of Blake Stevens for his prayer app. Him. And who's the really toxic fella? Who's. Geez Louise. Who's the. Who's the actor who is like Mr. Boston? Caviezel. Mr. Boston. He's Donnie Wahlberg. Yeah. Not Donnie.

[Luke Burbank]

Donnie. Oh, Marky.

[Andrew Walsh]

Mark. Oh, my goodness. That was awful. Anyway, Mark Wahlberg and Chris Pratt are both in these, like, prayer app commercials where they'd say, like, stay prayed up. Stay prayed.

[Luke Burbank]

Watching this, I just.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wherever I can. Any place I can. No, I don't know. I think I stumbled on it for after these messages or something as a.

[Luke Burbank]

I want to be careful because we do have people listen who listen to the show, who are people of faith. And I really want people to live whatever their truth is. But I find Chris Pratt, who did grow up in Lake Stevens, Washington, he had quite a. He had quite a lucky turn in his life, you know, he was selling Cutco knives. He ends up moving to Hawaii. He's working at a bubblegump shrimp company. He's a server there. And one of the customers is a woman named Rae Dawn Chong, an actor, also happens to be the child of, I believe, Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong. And she thinks that Chris Pratt as her server, again, I think I want to say at a Bubba Gump shrimp company. She thinks that he has a certain pizzazz and, like, casts him in a movie that's shooting in Hawaii. He gets the part in the movie, ends up moving to la, has some bit roles, ends up on Parks and Rec, ends up as Indiana Jones. Like, this guy has had an absolutely phenomenally blessed and lucky life. And I guess it's interesting to me that after all of that, he's become hyper religious. I don't know why. I just feel like being hyper religious.

[Andrew Walsh]

Did he become or was he always.

[Luke Burbank]

We should ask Kamaro Kev, because I believe Camaro Kev was in class with Cully Pratt, Chris's brother. They do a thing up there where they name all their kids with the same letter, like they do in Camaro's family.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's very confusing when I am hanging out with Camaro's family, but they spell confusing with a. That's.

[Luke Burbank]

That's the confusing part. But, like, you know, I don't. I get the sense that that was, you know, I don't think he grew up in a particularly, like, you know, Christian home. I think I would have heard about that through the grapevine. I feel like this has been a later in life kind of thing for him. And again, everybody can do whatever they want. It's just. I guess what I'm. If I were Chris Pratt and everything had broken my way in the way it had, I think I might think I was God. I don't feel like I would need to turn to a higher power. I think I would be like, man, I got this life thing figured out. Man, I got this thing licked.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, you know who the third person is? And so there's three guys who are advertising this. Yeah. Basically the app is called Hallow, and you got Mark Wahlberg, you got Chris Pratt, and then you got the guy who played Jesus in the.

[Luke Burbank]

Jim Caviezel.

[Andrew Walsh]

No. Jonathan Roumie. Oh, do you know who Jonathan.

[Luke Burbank]

That's funny because Jim Caviezel also played Jesus and is a nutcase and is from Mount Vernon.

[Andrew Walsh]

Jonathan Rooney, another Washingtonian, played him in the Chosen. Basically, he just plays Jesus in a whole bunch of stuff. I think Professional Jesus guy. Yeah. And now he's selling a prayer app, which is. So this is a. Let's see here. This is a Mark Wahlberg.

[Luke Burbank]

Hey, stop what you're doing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Pray with me. Oh, he's just gonna do it.

[Luke Burbank]

Jesus Christ, son of the living God, empty me. Why remove my holding me back? Fill me 2am Fill me with your love and your peace and your fire.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm not trying to make fun of religion. Give you my life. Use it for your good. I just want to say pray.

[Luke Burbank]

Why are you Franklin Gramming our show right now?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't know what I'm. Join me in millions of other.

[Luke Burbank]

Stay prayed up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Stay prayed up. He's got this whole thing prayed up. Yeah, Hashtag stay prayed up. Stay prayed up. Anyway, it's those three, and they're kicking around these app commercials. And I don't remember exactly how I got on this. All I know is I couldn't think of Mark Wahlberg's name.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm starting to worry that they don't have a script for the movie the Catch everywhere I read about it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah. Can we actually get back to this?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I'm on deadline hall right now. I don't know what second website I've been to that has said specifically. Plot details remain unknown.

[Andrew Walsh]

I apologize, by the way. I was really up late last night, and I don't know anything that's happened in this show so far today. I really am out of it. I was staying. I was definitely you. I stayed up. I didn't pray up.

[Luke Burbank]

I love that there's a moment every day where you and Mark Wahlberg are awake at the same time.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, does he. Is he known for getting up? Does he get up super early and I go to bed super late?

[Luke Burbank]

He's famous for, like, his. Allegedly, his schedule is like, he gets up at 2am okay. He likes eats like a 30 egg omelet. He works out for five hours. He, like, takes his kid to school. He does all this. Like he writes a script or something. He stays prayed up. He's always, like, circulating his insane schedule, but then he just goes to bed at 4 in the afternoon. He's just shifted his entire day to be even discussed this on the show, like, years ago. It's like. And again, Patty wants to live his life, no problem, but it's like he's just moved everything to a different kind of quadrant of the day than like,

[Andrew Walsh]

most of us, which I actually advocated for at one point because I had a weird schedule where I'd get in it Wasn't a night shift, but I would get into work around 3:30 in the morning for a morning edition shift. And so it kind of put me half a day, like kind of out of sync with everybody else, which I liked because like my lunchtime was not a busy lunchtime wherever I was going to get lunch or you know what I mean? I remember around the holidays going shopping and like my day was so weird that I was doing my holiday shopping at a time when everybody else is at work. So you can make an argument. And also it gets you out of social engagements if you're like, no, sorry, I go to bed at 5 a. At 5pm Then sorry I can't come to your picnic or what have you. But again, I'm a, I'm a sour, weird person. Okay. So I was, I have it in

[Luke Burbank]

front of me, by the way.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, good.

[Luke Burbank]

Mark Wahlberg's actual schedule that he somehow published somewhere. 2:30am Wake up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

2:45am Prayer time, a.k.a. stay prayed up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

3:15 breakfast, 3:40 to 5:15 workout. 5:30 post workout meal, 6:00am Shower. 7:30am Golf.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's a long shot. 8:00am I respect that. Is that a 90 minute shower?

[Luke Burbank]

That looks like a. Well, he's got 6 to 7:30 blocked out. No, sorry. He's got 6.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

6 to 7:30 blocked out for a shower. But here's what's weird.

[Andrew Walsh]

Showered up.

[Luke Burbank]

Here's what's really weird. Golf time, 7:30 to 8. What are we doing?

[Andrew Walsh]

There's something wrong with this.

[Luke Burbank]

What are we doing here? This is my Tucker Carlson impression.

[Andrew Walsh]

This isn't right.

[Luke Burbank]

Half hour of golf.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, no. 90 minute shower, leaving shower. Half hour of golf is. Does he have one of those just little greens and one of those little putting greens in his office that he got for Father's Day or something?

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. He hits into a net. He's got, he's got one of those like, you know, I promise you there is a movie to bring up one of your favorite actors, an actor of a generation, Andrew. I am sure there's a movie where Dabney Coleman is putting a golf ball in his office into one of those little.

[Andrew Walsh]

You know what I mean? Absolutely. Gotta be. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

That little one hole that like in the 80s.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Bosses were always putting golf balls into.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. While he's dismissing someone or being savage

[Luke Burbank]

or something, somehow firing someone either in person or over the phone, he's doing something very dramatic and mean. But really what he's focusing on is his golf putt.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, exactly. Okay, so what happens after speed golf? This is bullshit.

[Luke Burbank]

8:00am snack.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay, he just has. He's like a little bag of gummies.

[Luke Burbank]

How long do you think he's got for the snack?

[Andrew Walsh]

I mean I'm thinking that he's just eating fruit roll up. So I'm giving him 15 minutes on that.

[Luke Burbank]

90 minutes.

[Andrew Walsh]

You're joking.

[Luke Burbank]

I asked you not.

[Andrew Walsh]

So 90 minutes, 30 minute golf round to a 90 minute snack.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, there's nothing else on the schedule after snack until 9:30, which is cryo chamber recovery.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, from the snack. It's a brutal snack.

[Luke Burbank]

From the snack. Then 10:30. So it's one hours blocked out for cryo chamber recovery. 10:30am snack. He's back to snacking.

[Andrew Walsh]

For how long?

[Luke Burbank]

Half hour. Because his next obligation. 11:00am Family time slash meetings slash work calls. Family comes number. Let's go three. Yeah, I don't think family is in. What do we always say? Comes first.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, right.

[Luke Burbank]

Breakfast, cryo chamber.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, 1pm he's got two hours blocked out for family time. Meetings, work calls, 1pm Lunch. Okay, one hour for lunch. At 2pm he's back on the schedule. Meeting slash work calls. 3pm Pick up kids at school. I don't know how he's doing family time at 11 while the kids are at school.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, maybe family time is more like the biblical mommy and. Yeah, daddy time. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

[Luke Burbank]

And then. Or maybe that's where he does like ablutions or he does some sort of self flagellation.

[Andrew Walsh]

Sure, maybe he.

[Luke Burbank]

Maybe don's a hair shirt.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was gonna say where's hair shirt on the schedule?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, we're. Andrew, we're about halfway through the schedule.

[Andrew Walsh]

I do have opinions on this Emma Stone story, by the way.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, meetings, work calls, pick up kids at school. 3:00pm 3:30, we're back to snacking.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow.

[Luke Burbank]

4:00pm workout number two.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

With some of the funky bunch.

[Andrew Walsh]

Which ones does it list them?

[Luke Burbank]

Fitter ones.

[Andrew Walsh]

Family slash funky. Funky.

[Luke Burbank]

Cryo chamber with two of the four funky bunch. Okay, workout number two at 4pm it's only an hour 5pm Shower. Like you, there's another way that you guys have a lot of commonality. You're both awake at the same time. Yeah, the wee small hours of the morning. And you both are two shower a day boy.

[Andrew Walsh]

And we're both ripped from all the workouts and snacking.

[Luke Burbank]

Freaking shredded. 5:00pm shower, 5:30pm dinner slash family time. And then 7:30, we're back to bed. We're off to bed at 7:30.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wow, that's pretty early. Okay. But yeah, like you said 7:30, then you're just sleeping.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't.

[Andrew Walsh]

How do you think he feels about daylight? Like permanent daylight saving time?

[Luke Burbank]

I should ask him, actually. Yeah, you should. Because like, this feels to me like with the exception of picking up the kids, which he could still do that at 3, he could get up at 6am, have the whole same day and pick up, just block that out for three. That's just the thing he's doing at 3 o' clock, whether he got up at 2:30 or he got up at 6. You know what I mean?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't really.

[Luke Burbank]

This is what I never understood about this. Why does he need to be awake at 2:30 for the first workout, for prayer time and workout? He could do all of this. He could get up at 6 and he could go to bed at 9.

[Andrew Walsh]

He could get up at 10am and go to bed at 2am there's nothing

[Luke Burbank]

about this that, as far as I understand, we already know he's not even going to a real golf course.

[Andrew Walsh]

When does he. Did you say this? I'm sorry if I blanked out. When does he digitize old VHS tapes and post the commercials to YouTube?

[Luke Burbank]

I need to ask you about that, actually, because I'm about to embark on a ambitious digitizing project of my own. But back to the msd.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm already jealous because you're gonna buy all this nice equipment and stuff I'm using. Terrible.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, I asked your advice on that. I need to ask your advice. I don't want to overspend. I was thinking of all these so very briefly. Then we'll get back to Emma Stone. You know, I made that documentary many years ago about the Trachtenberg family slideshow players. And the young, young woman in the story, Rachel the drummer, is now in her. Like my daughter, I think, early 30s and is a musician and wants to make a music video with some footage of herself as a young kid. So she wants me to send her some of these old archive tapes that I, I have. But they're all on like half of them are shot on little small, like mini DV.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

What a Sony X1000 would use. And then they're slightly larger. I think it might have been like beta cam or something. Well, the whole film is on a beta cam, but like the entire finished piece. But then I have various different sizes of. And I need to figure out. I'm gonna. I was gonna get it digitized, but it's a lot of stuff and I think it might Almost honest. Be cheaper for me to buy a device that lets me digitize that and then buy a hard drive and just kind of digitize it all myself.

[Andrew Walsh]

You'd probably. Now, keep in mind, I only deal with VHS tapes, and so I have literally an old VCR that I just got at, like, the thrift store. So for you, though, that's. Those are very specific formats that you'd have to, like, buy.

[Luke Burbank]

I already reached out to two people that I know that run studios in Portland, and they were both like, I don't know if we have that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Really? And these are professionals. Yeah, they're professionals.

[Luke Burbank]

Look it up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

So, yeah, I'll be keeping you posted on that. But I was thinking about you today on my jog, because I was like, I got to get these things loaded, and then if I load them in, I've got to be really careful with the file management.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

I can't, because this is hours. I mean, this is like hundreds of hours of footage on, like, so many tapes. And it's like I'm going to have to set up a really dedicated diligent system if I do end up trying to digitize this myself. So it just doesn't end up being like 200 hours of footage that I have no idea what is what. You know, I'm.

[Andrew Walsh]

What's the word? Around. Ranging around. I'm scrounging around this little box I have full of USB drives because.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, like mark Wahlberg at 5:30. That's scrounging around time.

[Andrew Walsh]

This is scrounging around. See all this? These are all like a bunch of thumb drives and various things. And on here somewhere is our friend Jonathan Hauser. Had me digitize a piece that he did, I believe as a very young, like, high school reporter or something like that, or he was in high school, he was featured on Como News or something like that. I gotta find that and play that for you. I assume that he's okay with it.

[Luke Burbank]

I found something else. When I went down and got this box of all these old tapes from the documentary, the raw footage, I found something. What did this used to be? Seeds of change.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

That's goodness. From the ground up, this must have been something we had.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe.

[Luke Burbank]

We got these as a promo, but this box actually says old radio stuff.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, wow, that's fun.

[Luke Burbank]

And it's got like. Like air checks like you wouldn't believe. The Luke Burbank Show.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, wow. On a cassette.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm talking cassette air checks. I'm talking about.

[Andrew Walsh]

Wait, the Luke Burbank Show. They Were air checking. That's the one from Cairo. They were giving you cassette tape air checks in that day.

[Luke Burbank]

I would have the engineer roll an air check on it.

[Andrew Walsh]

You mean. But when I. You mean, like post Ross and Burbank.

[Luke Burbank]

No, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

Like a kvi.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

That was like, on the.

[Andrew Walsh]

Who had a player there? Okay, gotcha. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

This is 5, 22, 99 hours, 1 and 2 of the Luke Burbank show. We've got. Andrew, check this out. Only you will appreciate this. It's the DAT from Only A Game that somebody put a post it note, save for Luke.

[Andrew Walsh]

Three exclamation points.

[Luke Burbank]

I must have had a little. That's not my handwriting, by the way.

[Andrew Walsh]

No. So somebody. Traffic. Somebody who ran traffic.

[Luke Burbank]

Probably somebody got the only a game from February 23rd when I must have had a story on there. I've got just like. I'm not gonna. You know, I'm not going to. Oh, my gosh. This was my archive of stories that I. Dat. Of course, this has got a story where I went out with an Olympic shotgunner. A story where I did. Went to the wheelchair Olympics. Something I did about the Sonics and the Jazz. A story about Hilltop cameras. Police cameras in the Hilltop neighborhood of. Of Tacoma. Oh, Pepsi Boy. That story I was very proud of. That was for Marketplace. And that was this kid, I've told you about him before, who figured out that there was this. That commercial that Pepsi had about all the stuff you could get for Pepsi points.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he sued because the last

[Luke Burbank]

item was a jet. And it said like, a million Pepsi points.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And he figured out that you could

[Luke Burbank]

buy a million pepsi points for 60,000 bucks. And that was a screaming deal on that Harrier jump jet. So that was a story I did. But anyway, I was getting. Man. I was. You want to talk about nostalgia being a powerful drug, Andrew? Last night I was just, like, looking at this stuff and just.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was getting a physical reaction to it almost, in a way. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. I can't find this Hauser tape. Unfortunately, maybe that's fortunate for Hauser since I didn't get actual permission to use it. I do have something here. My computer's been acting funky lately. I need to get to the bottom of this. But I do have something here that. It says, February 28, 1995. Como Morning News. Full. Let's see.

[Luke Burbank]

Did you work at Como?

[Andrew Walsh]

No. This is just stuff I've scraped off old VHS tapes that I found, like, at a. At like A garage sale or something. Let me see if that. Oh, no, I have a double something kind of a. Here we go.

[Luke Burbank]

Let's try this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Have signed a trade agreement that heads off a big trade war in your

[Luke Burbank]

morning money Word that the trade deal will have an impact impact on the Northwest.

[Andrew Walsh]

Now let's tell you if I can get this dialed up again who these reporters are. This is CHANNEL Yesterday. Welcome back to 543. You may have heard Jim Snyder and Lynn Espinosa.

[Luke Burbank]

I know Lynn Espinosa, morning word that the trade deal will have an impact on the Northwest. As Como Farland Chang reports, computer software companies in Washington are among the big winners.

[Andrew Walsh]

For years now, Microsoft has been leading

[Luke Burbank]

the fight to protect its products from being copied illegally in China. Microsoft says last year alone it lost more than $350 million.

[Andrew Walsh]

Well, my computer malfunctioned, but also that wasn't super interesting. So let's go back to this Emma Stone story, shall we? Your question to me before I confuse

[Luke Burbank]

Would you be ticked if you showed up and your team had sold you out for, you know, did not have their normal uniforms on so as to accommodate Emma Stone?

[Andrew Walsh]

No.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, we've also learned grew up rich.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like I. Oh, that's what this is about. Okay, this is why you're so upset. Because here's the deal. I said the context around this matter is first of all, like I say, if it was, you know, if it was some sort of movie that I might be interested in, maybe I would be more excited about it. But also, listen, if my team is on a winning streak and they have been wearing the same uniforms every day because of the winning streak or even like the rotation of the uniforms is working for them and they're just locked in and then they mess up their uniforms and then they lose a weird game they should have won. Like, maybe I have some feelings around that. But at the outset, like given just like normal, like what the, what the league is doing with uniforms these days is just such a blatant cash grab anyway. They just keep on creating new in most cases, God awful city connect uniforms. Like some of these things are just, it just makes your mind numb at how bad some of the design is. But hey, we can crank out some more jerseys, we can crank out some more hats for the fans to wear, what have you. And so like I don't, I don't know, I don't have any reverence around the uniform. Unless again, like I say, you are a team and a player and you're, you're really on a. Some sort of a hot streak. And the whole thing is like, hey, we haven't changed these uniforms for the whole road trip. Or I guess this is clearly a home stand if this is the deal. But I don't know, I just don't think I would be that worked up about it.

[Luke Burbank]

I think for me, if they lost yet another game, I'd be looking for anything to be mad at, as I often am. So I think I would be mildly annoyed about it. But do you find yourself then not buying or do you try to like, you're talking about this being a cash grab? I think you're totally right. I mean, generally speaking, the fact that they're always debuting and you know, I feel like football really kind of led the way on this, but maybe they were doing it concurrently. But just like this idea of like color rush and we can like. Which are uniformly. And I use that word advisedly, horrible. In my experience. They just look so dumb. The color rush football.

[Andrew Walsh]

I can't think of any color. There might have been one color rush team that I liked. But.

[Luke Burbank]

But like, do you find yourself then disinclined to buy like a City Connect jersey, which you actually like or something? Because I'm rewarding them for. For their greed, which we talk about all the time with the broadcasting and all. It's just such. It's all greed now.

[Andrew Walsh]

It is all greed. When I go to the ballpark, I try to. I try not to get in that mindset too much because it can just be a real bummer mindset. Like if you start. Yeah, exactly. If I start like thinking about what a rip off all of the prices are for the concessions and everything. And again, going to Cleveland Progressive park like we did a couple of weeks ago, and I already said this on the show, but knowing that prices don't have to be quite as astronomical and also the food can be better and stuff, Cleveland felt a little bit. It reminded me a little bit of how out of touch Safeco, not Safeco T Mobile park is as far as we have some really rich tech money here and the folks like to come to the games. Crickets eat sushi and crickets and end pizza that you can only get at the ballpark or put yourself on a wait list for months or whatever. It's kind of like moto kind of. Yeah. And I think that's calmed down a little bit. But it kind of reminded me that, like. Oh, yeah, like this is a. I was sort of saying this to you before the show a little bit. It sort of seems like ownership here in Seattle really is focused more on fan experience, but not in the winning way. Not hardcore fans, but more like, hey, how can we turn our. And again, I'm not trying to turn on the experience of going to T Mobile Park. It's still one of my favorite things to do. I think it's a fantastic stadium. I think that, you know, despite what you were saying the other day about maybe not having as close of access to the field in some parts of the park because it is big in the way it's laid out, you still always have a beautiful view. Once you're in your seat, almost anywhere you sit, you have a beautiful view of either the. The game itself or the game and the beautiful skyline of Seattle. Like, there's so much to recommend going to the park here, but it definitely is a culture of kind of like, oh, we're putting on, like, we're putting on a. We're putting on a circus or a show for the fans who want it. We're trying to fill the park full of, you know, full of people who are willing to spend $20 on a beer and what. What have you. And so when I'm at the park, I'm not. I try not to think about that too much because it'll just like ruin my time. I'm there. Like, just pay the prices, whatever it is. I'm just not a jersey guy in general. Like, I don't think I. Other than the Bernie Kosar official journey. That jersey that Genevieve got me, which I think I wore in the house a couple of times, I just don't think I look good in a. In a jersey. And so I don't. I don't buy merch, but I'm not trying to. Yeah, no, that's not true. I think some people look really good in baseball jerseys.

[Luke Burbank]

I guess occasionally. I just think the whole thing is a little. I don't know, it's a, it's a. It's odd to me to wear something with. That's not true. I, you know, I did want to get a Rob Refschneider jersey just to make the criminals laugh. But like, I guess the ranking. The jerseys that I think are ill fitting on normal people. Top of the list. Hockey.

[Andrew Walsh]

Hockey jersey. Yeah. Unflattering.

[Luke Burbank]

It's a, It's a tough look. A jersey that's meant to also kind of have padding built into it. And you don't have the padding. You or you are infantilized.

[Andrew Walsh]

The.

[Luke Burbank]

The director, Kevin Smith, who I know our listeners Love and who seems like a good dude, loves hockey jerseys. He looks like he's five. Football jersey also tough to pull off.

[Andrew Walsh]

Don't jump on the bouncy bounce. You know this? You know this? Yes. What did you say? So hockey and then football, did you say? I think hockey.

[Luke Burbank]

Football.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, me too. That's why. And I'm just a booker of probably basketball.

[Luke Burbank]

Because it's a tank top.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And then baseball is actually the best.

[Andrew Walsh]

Baseball I think can be very.

[Luke Burbank]

Translates the best to normal life wear. I would say.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. I see some really cool. I think that baseball jerseys are cool because you're usually like a lot of people are leaving them open in the front. Like they're more form fitting. Like some of them are more form fitting. I think some women look really good like with. With the, like the Sunday cream jerseys and in that the Mariners used to wear like it's a very good kind of look. And it can be almost, if not like sort of slimming. It can be. It's not as like foxy and blocky and it can be more flattering. Yeah. I actually think baseball jerseys are kind of cool. I just don't buy them. And you know, when I'm buying a new Mariners hat, like I'm just going to buy the one I like the most usually. But I just haven't bought a new hat in a while. But I'm not trying to withhold. I just, just, you know, I'll buy a new hat once every couple of seasons or something.

[Luke Burbank]

You know What I actually thought turned out pretty well were our TBTL baseball shirts. Those blue shirts. Yeah, I saw a couple people wearing those. At least one person wearing that in Ohio at our event.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. Look good.

[Luke Burbank]

And I thought, boy, I'm proud of that shirt. That shirt actually holds up like it's a nice looking shirt.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. We talked about what kind of shirt that is. That's the kind. It's like the jersey with like the blue sleeves and the white front and back or whatever. What do you call that sort of hat?

[Luke Burbank]

No, I thought the one that just said it just had writing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. And it just has TB tail on the front. Yeah, that's what we're describing.

[Luke Burbank]

Doesn't it have like multiple. Doesn't it say. Didn't it say multiple things or something? We're thinking of different shirts.

[Andrew Walsh]

Maybe. I'm talking about the baseball TBT baseball jersey that had the blue, you know, white shirt, blue sleeve, classic. Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

We're talking about different shirts.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, what are you talking about?

[Luke Burbank]

There was an all blue shirt that had writing on it.

[Andrew Walsh]

The Go eat a bagel. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was from when we had a. That was from the. What we had. Remember, we wanted that shirt to say who's the pitchers in this game? But they would. But the Mariners wouldn't let us because they thought we were making fun of the pitching staff or something like that. Oh. So we went with go eat a bagel. Yeah, those.

[Luke Burbank]

The pitchers in this game would have been so great.

[Andrew Walsh]

Shout out. I know. And then. But then we're stymied by the powers that be.

[Luke Burbank]

Go eat a bagel was still kind of funny.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's still pretty funny. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Although. RIP that place.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

Literally.

[Andrew Walsh]

We just gave them free advertising too.

[Luke Burbank]

Speaking of beloved local businesses, Andrew, if I bring up this little headline from the Oregonian that I saw this morning. Beloved pizza chain offering 50% off deal for delivery carryout.

[Andrew Walsh]

First of all, what a headline. How is anything being 50% off deal? How is that a news headline?

[Luke Burbank]

Very, very surprising to me as well. Very inexplicable. I thought, this is. Something stinks about this headline. Beloved pizza chain offering 50% off deal. I was like, this feels like Spawncon advertorium. And also, who are they talking about with a beloved pizza chain? None other than. I'll show you the next part of the article. You guessed it before the show, Andrew. Domenico's. No way.

[Andrew Walsh]

I said that as a joke.

[Luke Burbank]

Domino's Pizza.

[Andrew Walsh]

I said that literally as a joke. I said, is it Domino'? Is it. Is it pizza? Pizza.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a full. But this is a full ass article about how Domino's Pizza is offering a deal. And it is so obviously bought and paid for. But here's the craziest part to me, Andrew, check this out. The third panel that I'll show you. It's behind a paywall. Wow. So this beloved pizza place offering 50% off, which is just obviously Domino's Pizza, is paying to have this ad in the Oregonian. I also have to pay. It's behind the paywall. Does that mean it's real content?

[Andrew Walsh]

I think it's real content. That is bananas. And it's got a box. It's got a reporter's byline on it. Right. Like in the food section. That's not like sponcon. It's.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it's somebody named. Although it's not. Here's the thing. It's not an Oregonian reporter. It's somebody named brandon champion of MLive.com so whatever MLive.com is. So this is something that wormed its way into the Oregonian, but it's behind a paywall. Do you think, and this is really the nature of my question, why I jumped on the story. Do you think anyone. And I'm not like, listen, I'm not trying to. Yuck yums. Do you think anyone considers Domino's beloved?

[Andrew Walsh]

It is a, it is a delivery chain. I do not think that it is beloved. I think it is a go to and I'm not even ordered from many times by the way. So M Alive is like the Michigan news site that I think, you know, fills out a lot of like Michigan area newspapers. So like this is getting more and more confusing.

[Luke Burbank]

So a Michigan newspaper or a Michigan news service wrote about. Domino's Pizza is offering 50% off. It's picked up by the Oregonian on the wire, published as a story, just a straight up story, and then put behind a paywall even though it feels extremely. Listen, here's the, here's the article. America's largest pizza chain is offering half off pizzas all week long. The deal From Domino's includes 50% off all menu priced pizzas through August 2nd and is available for delivery or carryout. Customers can take advantage online via Domino's mobile app or over the phone or in person. Summer is all about making memories, whether that's a backyard get together, family movie night or simply sharing a meal with friends. Said. And then it's cut off by the paywall. I don't know who said that.

[Andrew Walsh]

So I want to. A couple of things. I want to clarify something. I was going to not clarify this, but it's living in my damn head. I just want to make clear to the audience that I know pizza. Pizza is not a Domino's phrase. I meant I was rattling off various national chains. But I just feel like, I don't know, in the, in the stillness that followed since I've said that, I feel like I can. What do they say in Star Wars? I don't know. I can feel like millions of disturbance in the forest crying out or something

[Luke Burbank]

about that many bothans died.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah. When you said pizza.

[Luke Burbank]

Pizza.

[Andrew Walsh]

So yeah, I know that's Little Caesar's. I meant like when you said beloved chain. I was just guessing like what would be the largest. But also the first line of this should. The headline should use the language that the first line of the story uses, which is America's. Did it say America's largest pizza chain? Yeah. Okay, that's descriptive. First of all. I mean, this shouldn't be an article, right? Obviously. But it should say, america's largest pizza chain offers deal or whatever. And I still don't understand why that is a. Why that's news. Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Beloved is very opinionated.

[Andrew Walsh]

Very strange also. So according To MLive, the 2026 Lions training camp preview specialist trio enters another year locked in Luke. So the specialists of the Lions are coming to camp locked in. In case you're curious about that, that'd

[Luke Burbank]

be like Amon Ra Saint Brown. That would be Jared Goof. Right.

[Andrew Walsh]

Jack, this is Jake Bates. Jack Fox and Hogan Hatton enter another training camp with no other. With no other competition on the roster. So I don't know if these are anyone. Anyway, I just.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel like calling Domino's Pizza Beloved is both unprofessional in the journalistic realm and flatly wrong. People order from Domino's all the time. It's not Beloved.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, it's just. Yeah, yeah, It's.

[Luke Burbank]

It's a pizza that you get because you are hungry for pizza and they will bring it to your house or you are, you know. You know, it's a soccer party or whatever. And again, I'm not dissing Domino's. I have ordered Domino's a thousand times in my life. It's just not. But I never beloved it.

[Andrew Walsh]

No. When I was doing it, I mean, I beloved Pizza Mountain a little bit because by the mere quality, that was actually fun. Just like walking in and just seeing a. Just giant pile of pizza boxes of

[Luke Burbank]

how much pizza I ordered for whatever we were watching. I mean, if anything, I think I did as much as Domino's to Beloved that scenario, to my just sheer dedication to over ordering.

[Andrew Walsh]

My Pavlovian response to, like, you. You know me well enough, Luke. We've been doing this show for a long time together, and we talk about food a lot. Right? And I don't think that if you were going to describe one of the things we talk about a lot or one of the things that sort of would define me or something is like, love of pizza, right? Like, I like food. I definitely like food, but it's not like, oh, Andrew talks about pizza all the time or whatever. But honestly, I can't think of a food where you show me the packaging, whether it's a generic packaging as portrayed in a cartoon like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Like, literally a cartoon of somebody holding a white pizza box or seeing a photo on Instagram and seeing a pizza box in the background in real life or whatever. Like, just seeing is more triggering. Oh, my God. And I just want pizza so bad. Like, I will see somebody walk across the crosswalk in front of me while I'm stopped at a light. And if they're carrying a pizza, it just tells me so much about their night. Like, ah, I'm so happy for them. They're going home with their pizza. Like, I have real, like, Pavlovian responses to just seeing the packages. Where.

[Luke Burbank]

What is your go to now that you live over where you live?

[Andrew Walsh]

I don't have one.

[Luke Burbank]

This is a real problem family, right?

[Andrew Walsh]

This is actually a real problem. And, like, I have not. I don't. I live in, like, a pizza desert. I don't know. Like, I guess if I were to lock in, I guess I'd go to Pagliacchi's. Pagliachi's.

[Luke Burbank]

I miss that.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, Maybe I'll go back to that. The last time I got it delivered, I do like the fact that they deliver directly. They don't mess around with the apps. And I kind of want.

[Luke Burbank]

And they deliver to your house.

[Andrew Walsh]

They do deliver. Exactly. And now I'm mad that I pronounced the G in Pagliacci the first time I said it. But, yeah, the last time I delivered, it's still. It's just like. And again, this is where I sound like a cheapskate, but it is so ridiculously expensive. I think I got a large pizza delivered to my house and it was over $50 last time. And this was not a fancy pizza. This was just like, it was a large, you know, so I probably veeves and I probably both ate it and had leftovers. So, you know, there's something there. But, like, it is just so expensive. Just the very, just reality of the marketplace. This isn't even me, like, complaining about, like, those f. I actually don't think that that is not the Pagliachi thing, actually. And I like the fact that they are still trying to maintain their own delivery service. I appreciate that. I want to support that, but it just sort of takes the fun out of pizza night when you kind of like, you go. You open the app and you're like, okay, I'm just going to be just pepperoni. Like, okay, whatever. And then you're upwards of $50 for this thing to be delivered to your door when you include their delivery fee and a tip. And so it just kind of takes the fun out of pizza for me. I just. It's been a long time since I. Yeah, my last thing was Pudge Brothers, and I could get that delivered and. Or, or I'd swing by and pick it up. It was more in my neighborhood. I don't think Pudge brothers would deliver to me all the way up here. Or if it did, like, like I say, like, it just gets real expensive real fast. And like, I don't know, it's just sort of. It hasn't been. Ever since we moved to this house, I have not had a good, like, pizza experience.

[Luke Burbank]

You want to talk about a pizza desert? I don't think. I don't even know who would deliver pizza up here to me. So I could order it through doordash, which is just where they'll go get the pizza for me. But you want to talk about expensive? It's wild. If you throw that extra fee in as well. I have. At any time I go to doordash, I will have two or three pizzas that I started ordering and then bailed on.

[Andrew Walsh]

That makes me feel better because you're not.

[Luke Burbank]

I can't hit go on this. I can't spend $60.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's what I'm talking about. It gets. I keep on saying over 50, but it's like, close to 60. 60. And like, and again. And I'm so glad to hear you say that because I feel like a cheapskate saying that. Or like, like, again, an old man who's living in the past. It's just like, the reality of things now and again. I would much rather probably we'll do it tonight now, but. Or maybe certainly this weekend. But, like, and again, I like Polyachi and I want to support them. And so I don't want to be out here like, like complaining. I think it's just the reality of what it takes to, like, break even. I don't think they're getting rich off of it either. And also, I. I think the ownership there is pretty good, too, as far as like, kind of being part of the community and looking out for the community.

[Luke Burbank]

For my whole life growing up there, you know, there was always pagliacchis. They were always. It seemed to be locally owned. And yeah, a big part of the community. Pizza is expensive. But, Andrew, I have some amazing news. I recently read, you know, a beloved pizza chain is offering 50% off.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, my God. Can you read me the whole article?

[Luke Burbank]

I actually can't because I spent all my money on pizza and I can't afford the Oregonian.

[Andrew Walsh]

Actually, since we're not going live to the thing, we can stop down briefly. I don't know that I've go to voicemail.

[Luke Burbank]

I might have one.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

But we could also just call it.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good.

[Luke Burbank]

We just hit an hour. It's funny because that's one thing I noticed yesterday was. Oh, when we're doing this as a. I guess you could edit it down.

[Andrew Walsh]

I could scroll down.

[Luke Burbank]

I didn't.

[Andrew Walsh]

It was nice to not have to. To be honest with you. And we were kind of in the mood. The mode of not doing that for the Thawne anyway, so kind of keeping those muscles strong.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Andrew Walsh]

We could have bound though.

[Luke Burbank]

But it was. But yesterday I was like. I was realizing in the moment, I was like, I don't know what the. Yeah, I don't know what the. Am I okay? We're just doing this like as if it's.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm pretty glad we just jumped in though, and didn't overthink it.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh yeah. I'm so glad we did. I have an email that I like, actually.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay.

[Luke Burbank]

So can I play?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, you go ahead. Yep, Here I go once again with the email. Every week I hope that it's from a female. Oh, man. It's not from a female.

[Luke Burbank]

All right. Emails or vmails. I actually got an email that I was going to read to you on the subject of actors because Emma Stone came up today and I resurfaced my weird hang up about the fact that she apparently grew up with certain amount of privilege. Listener Brooks reached out and said, the actor I always think of with the most privilege is Julia Louis Dreyfus. Her dad was a billionaire when she was born and is one of the best. She is one of the best comic actors of our day. If I was set up from birth, I would not have worked that hard at comedy. I would manage the family nonprofit and enjoy my vacations in the south of France, I believe. I don't know if it's still the case, but there was a period of time where those big. They're sort of silos that are down along, I guess the kind of Elliot Bay or Puget Sound kind of in like I'm doing a bad job. You know where the old Seattle PI building is with that big globe on top of it. I seem to remember that there were some big like silos. I don't know if they were for grain or for what they were exactly for, but I was always told that those belonged to Julia Louis Dreyfus. Dad. Really. He was this industrialist and he was a very, very, very, very wealthy person. Now here's what's strange. Maybe because first of all, I'm such a big fan of Julia Louis Dreyfus. I just think she's the best. And maybe because I learned that that information at A time where I wasn't feeling so much of a chip on my shoulder. That's never, quote, unquote, bothered me about her. And to be honest, it doesn't bother me about Emma Stone. It bothers me, to quote Herm Edwards. It bothers me, famously, that it bothers me that I even clock that Emma Stone came from wealth for whatever reason. That doesn't. That doesn't give me any special feeling about Julia Louis Dreyfus, other than almost actually being more impressed. Because, like, how are you that good at something when you did not. You had a pretty solid fallback plan. It's called be rich.

[Andrew Walsh]

It's funny for me, like, the actors. Well, I mean, this is kind of your journey anyway. Again, like, it goes back years and years. We're talking about that loser from Laugier. Yeah. Right. And like. And so I don't think I have this same kind of class thing, but also with, I don't know, with Hollywood actors. Like, I'm never looking for any dirt under the fingernails of Hollywood actors.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. You're assuming that they probably.

[Andrew Walsh]

Or they've. Yeah. Or they've reached. They've reached. Like, it's just sort of like, this is Hollywood. Hey, by the way, this is relevant to today's show. I didn't have any voicemails dialed up and ready to play, but I just, like, opened up the voicemail line, and it looks like this is only 18 seconds. And this is from our friend Lee. It looks like he sent this about seven days ago. Hey, look at Andrew. This is listener Lee. I met the Mariners game tonight. They play in Cincinnati. It's top of the eighth. I've watched them leave, I think combined nine men on base, but before they. They strike out. How do you guys do this on a regular basis? Power out. The question is, how do we watch the Mariners on a regular basis? Luke, that is the question.

[Luke Burbank]

To quote who? Is it Ian McKellen or is that how do I watch the Mariners?

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes. How do I act? Yes, sir. Ian McKellen. Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

Eli, you already know this.

[Andrew Walsh]

Not well, because you listen to today's

[Luke Burbank]

show, but we don't have the answer.

[Andrew Walsh]

No, we don't. We have a lot of bile.

[Luke Burbank]

You try to drink enough beer that it sort of creates an equilibrium with a bile. Only lets the bile up so high.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah, exactly. What we do is there's a thing you can do where you can poke a hole in the bottom of the can and then open the top of the can and. Yeah, I've actually never done that before. Have you?

[Luke Burbank]

I haven't either.

[Andrew Walsh]

I've literally never shotgunned a beer or beer bonged or whatever like anything like that. I never had any interest in that.

[Luke Burbank]

I never have never done any of that. You and I have a story and I won't. I'll be. I'll be spare on details.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, sure.

[Luke Burbank]

And also we're.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, God, this goes back a long way.

[Luke Burbank]

We're running up to the end of the show, but like, there's somebody that we both know who was very, very excited about doing a keg stand at a. At a party that was being thrown. And I believe. And again, this is. This is all kind of lost in the fog of war and the fog of. I'm sure how much I was drinking that night, but my memory is that the person at the end of it all did the keg stand and I don't believe was actually maybe drinking any of the beer out of the thing.

[Andrew Walsh]

And also. But made like such a big deal of it. I think also there was sort of like, it was not impromptu. I believe they brought a change of clothes for kickstand pants.

[Luke Burbank]

Because, you know, if you're wearing a dress.

[Andrew Walsh]

Okay. Oh, that's what it was. It wasn't about getting. Oh, I thought, I thought it was like getting messy and then changing out of it. Yeah. The whole thing was just a little bit extra in a way that. And non organic in a way that you would hope. You would hope a keg stand would be organic in some way.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, just the way that I grew up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes.

[Luke Burbank]

And I, you know, I missed the entire. I was not in a frat. I wasn't really in a college drinking culture. So I missed the whole. Whether it's the, you know, like you said, the sort of like doing a shotgun beer or doing a gravity. It's not a gravity bong. That's actually a weed thing. I also have never done a gravity bong.

[Andrew Walsh]

Neither have I. I mean, that's. People say gravity bong, but, like, you know, that's not a bong. Right. It's like some weird thing people do. It's like they cut a 2 liter bottle in half and then submerge it in the sink like that. A gravity bong is again, it's kind of a college thing.

[Luke Burbank]

I thought it was taking a rip while you listen to John Mayer sing Gravity.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, that. You know what? You might be right about that. I might have been.

[Luke Burbank]

I have much to teach you about weed culture.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, I look forward to that.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, our great idea. By the way. Or it was my idea, but I'm letting you guys kind of punch up some of the jokes on it of the idea of having. I don't know if it's a sketch or a movie that we write or whatever, but it's a person who is just so unbelievably into weed culture and loves weed culture, but does not smoke weed at all. Like, just not interested.

[Luke Burbank]

I thought I punched it up with he's smoking NA weed.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, that's right. You want non.

[Luke Burbank]

He's smoking whatever.

[Andrew Walsh]

Non intoxicating weed.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, it's like. It's. It's like the way that a lot of people, myself included, will enjoy an NA beer now and then. Like, are they making any NA weed? Are they making weed that doesn't get you high? But she gives you all the benefits, right? The smell and the lung damage.

[Andrew Walsh]

I think they're called gummy bears at this point. They're just.

[Luke Burbank]

I have been.

[Andrew Walsh]

You can get them at the store, dude.

[Luke Burbank]

I have been on a weird kick with. It started with Becca had a bag of nerve gummy clusters.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, are those good?

[Luke Burbank]

They're amazing.

[Andrew Walsh]

Cause I like gummy. I like gummy candies, and those look good. Do they have a crunchy outside sort of.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes. Grab a pack. They're very big in the running community because they're, like, so much sugar that if you're out on a long run and you need, like, a big kind of. I guess it would be a glucose ingestion. You just throw a couple of those nerd gummy clusters down. And so she had a bag of them and of course, didn't consume all of them. Of them. And so I had the bag of them, and they're so good. And it's like, Addie also got me for Christmas some kind of, like, sort of sour gummy thing that she said were kind of the best version of this. And I got to get the brand from her again. Something changed in me where I started eating. Like, I was not a gummy person. But, like, now. I was in the Las Vegas airport flying home the other day, and I wanted a sweet treat. I bought red licorice. Oh, it's like, weird Australian kind that my dad eats called, like, wallies or wallabies or something. And it's like, I'm. There's a whole. There's a whole new Luke. Andrew likes to eat that stuff.

[Andrew Walsh]

I went through a big gummy bear and kind of gummy candy phase, I think, like, last summer. I don't know how privy you were to it, but I know I told you. I even went online and bought the actor comedian Martin Starr has started a gummy bear company called Sweet Stash or something like that. And I bought some of those and my buddy Neil likes gummy candies too. So we were buying them and sort of trading notes and buying them for each other. You know what Veeves and I have been doing now? And I don't know how. Oh, I do know how this started. Is it interesting? Probably not. Will I tell it? Absolutely. I was in line at Home Goods and Home Goods is the store that's sort of like filling the need I have from like not going to Target anymore or shopping at Amazon or whatever. Like when I need, well, Home Goods, I go there. And you heard me talking for a long time. Like on the show. I was like, I don't know where to get towels anymore now that Bed Bath and Beyond isn't around. And now I realize, oh, there's Home Goods right between my pet store and my sprouts. Grocery store Home Goods. And I go in there more than you would expect these days. I love the smell. It makes me feel like a kid going into a store. Like my mom probably dragged me into stores like these when I was a kid and I absolutely hated it. Now the smell of all the potpourri and just all of the, all of the just middle aged shopping that happens there, it just like calms me down the moment I walk in and, and I love it there.

[Luke Burbank]

And then I'm.

[Andrew Walsh]

And it's kind of like a, it's kind of like TJ Maxx. Ish. I think it's owned by the same company right in Marshalls or something. And so when you're in the checkout line, they kind of have those stanchions and those kind of winds around and they tried to get you to buy all these, you know, impulse purchases. And they had a thing of, of jelly bellies there. And I was like, ooh, that's tempting. And then as I'm not going to buy them. And then the people in front of me at the cash register, there were three cash registers open and all of them were having some sort of issues with the customers. Like one customer was going back and shopping. Another customer was like, and so I'm sitting there, I'm waiting and I'm waiting, I'm waiting. And then I'm like, I'm here so long. I'm going to pick up this bag of jelly bellies. They got me. But then there was something Luke and I Don't know if this makes sense to you or not. I'm standing in line, still not moving. I'm holding this bag of jelly bellies, and I'm like, I don't want to buy jelly bellies from home goods. There's just something about, like, the. We just threw this in the box extra when we were shipping a bunch of toasters and bath towels or something. There was just something about consumables in a store like that that I was like, I just don't want to do it. And so I set it back down. I finally got out of that store. Store. I find myself in the grocery store probably 20 minutes later, and there's jelly bellies at a higher price point. And I bought them at the grocery store, but I still felt like, yeah, I want to buy this stuff at the grocery store, not in line while I'm holding my gift bag or whatever I was buying.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. I don't buy my furniture at Safeway.

[Andrew Walsh]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

I don't buy my gummies at World Market.

[Andrew Walsh]

Exactly.

[Luke Burbank]

My version of that. I love World Market. I can. I cannot go into the World Market in Tigard, Oregon, without spending, like, $300. They have me dialed in on, like, outdoor furniture and, like, stuff that I. It's just a weird conglomeration of things that I'm like, I didn't think I needed that, but I really probably need to get that just to be safe.

[Andrew Walsh]

But you know, what happened with the jelly belly? So I end up buying these jelly bellies at the grocery store. Like, moments later, I eat a few while I'm driving.

[Luke Burbank]

Spirit of Ronald Reagan.

[Andrew Walsh]

I was. I was. I almost tried to do an imitation, and then I bailed it. I threw him in the glove box. And then at one point, Genevieve said, oh, I see you have some jelly bellies in the glove box. I went to town on those. Now suddenly, we're a jelly belly family again. Genevieve was at the store the other day. She's like, I refilled the jelly belly supply. I don't know how these things just happen in relationships.

[Luke Burbank]

I was at you fast.

[Andrew Walsh]

What is your least favorite jelly belly flavor?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, that's a peanut butter. Without a doubt, that.

[Andrew Walsh]

That's a good answer, because I thought it was going to maybe be universally Popcorn. That's my least.

[Luke Burbank]

And I don't even know they made a popcorn.

[Andrew Walsh]

I like real popcorn, but I do not. I don't want anything that is like anything other than sweet. It's got to be a berry ish or lime or.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, but that's but this is what happens, Andrew. Now you guys are a jelly belly family, and you probably will remain so for the rest of your natural lives, right? And, like, Becca and I are a nerd cluster family.

[Andrew Walsh]

I want to try this.

[Luke Burbank]

I buy. I buy bags of nerd gummy clusters when I'm out and about. And then, you know, that's now a thing I'm doing.

[Andrew Walsh]

I'm gonna ask Genevieve if we can introduce nerd clusters into our relationship. See how she feels about that. I don't know. Is there a good way? Where do you have that conversation?

[Luke Burbank]

Well, it's all about, obviously, consent. What's Dan Savage's thing? Ggg.

[Andrew Walsh]

Oh, yeah. I can't remember.

[Luke Burbank]

Giving and creation and God. You got to stay prayed up.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yes, that's it. Okay, good power out.

[Luke Burbank]

Probably a good place to wrap things up today. Hey, thank you for listening, everybody. That's gonna do it for today's show game.

[Andrew Walsh]

Good game and giving or something.

[Luke Burbank]

Good game and giving.

[Andrew Walsh]

Like, you got to be game for what your partner wants, I'm guessing.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, there you go. That's your starting point for trying to integrate nerd gummy clusters into the. Into your family life. All right, thanks for listening. We are going to be back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio, so please dial in for that. In the meantime, have a great Tuesday. Go, Mariners. It can't hurt at this point.

[Andrew Walsh]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And please remember, no mountain too tall.

[Andrew Walsh]

And good luck to all. Power out.