Episode #918

Summary

Podcast Summary: TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live – Episode #918

Release Date: September 28, 2011

Hosts: Luke Burbank and Jen Flash Andrews
Title: Episode #918

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1. Opening Banter and Audio Challenges

[00:03] Luke Burbank:
The episode kicks off with playful banter involving characters Cathy Mitchell and Dr. Steve Bruhl discussing the "Griddleman" and panini sandwiches. Luke humorously questions the term "panini," leading to a light-hearted exchange about Italian language and culture.

[03:01] Luke Burbank:
Transitioning from humor, Luke opens up about a personal challenge: a hearing disability affecting certain audio frequencies. He shares,
"I have been making a huge mistake... I've been making a huge mistake."
This revelation explains recurring listener feedback about audio levels, as Luke explains his difficulty in hearing specific frequencies. This segment is both candid and relatable, offering listeners insight into the behind-the-scenes challenges of producing the show.

2. Andy Rooney's Retirement from 60 Minutes

[01:19] Luke Burbank:
The main topic of the day centers on the retirement of Andy Rooney from "60 Minutes." Luke shares,
"After over 260 years on the air, Andy Rooney is going to be calling it, calling it a day after next week."
Acknowledging the humorous exaggeration of Rooney’s tenure, the hosts delve into Rooney's influence and legacy. Jen adds,
"It's getting harder and harder for him to do it,"
highlighting the challenges faced by long-standing personalities in adapting to changing media landscapes.

3. Social Media and Tweet Controversy

[07:15] Luke Burbank:
Luke discusses a recent social media mishap where a tweet about a Ted Nugent lookalike at a bar led to backlash.
"People are basically accusing me of being a big fat liar. Lying is like 95% of what I do."
He clarifies that his absence from the show was due to illness, not irresponsibility, and humorously critiques the nature of online judgment.

4. Suggestions for Andy Rooney's Replacement

[20:34] Jen Flash Andrews:
The conversation shifts to potential successors for Andy Rooney’s role. Jen humorously suggests,
"Jamie Lee Curtis... Zach Galifianakis... Robert Krulwich... Mike Pesca,"
highlighting a mix of humor and sincerity in finding a fitting replacement. Luke concurs,
"Jen, you would be awesome at this because you're doing a version of that every day on tbtl."
This segment showcases the hosts' creative thinking and camaraderie.

5. Music Segment and Listener Engagement

[16:01] Dr. Steve Bruhl:
Intertwining music with discussion, the hosts play clips from bands like Sea Pony and Land of the Loops.
"This is a song called Dreaming... Goodbye by Land of the Loops,"
they share their musical tastes and engage with listeners through song identification challenges. Notable moments include:

• [44:29] "Lived in Bars" by Shawn Marshall (Cat Power):
  Jen identifies the song and discusses its lyrical depth and Cat Power’s vocal prowess.

• [50:22] "Multifamily Garage Sale Tomorrow" by Land of the Loops:
  Luke credits the band’s unique looping style and shares insights into their creative process.

6. Sponsorship and Promotional Segments

[34:37] Luke Burbank:
The show features a humorous sponsorship segment for Chateau St. Michel wine.
"If you're in the grocery store or wine shop... just grab a bottle of Chateau St. Michel."
Luke and Jen playfully promote the wine, weaving it seamlessly into their conversation and adding a layer of satire to typical promotional content.

7. Recommendations: Movies and Books

[37:05] Jen Flash Andrews:
Jen recommends the film "Drive," praising Ryan Gosling’s performance and the movie's modern film noir aesthetics despite its violent second half. She remarks,
"It's totally gripping and cool and shadowy and it asks a lot of really interesting questions about what it is to be a human being versus what it is to be a hero."

[38:50] Luke Burbank:
In the book segment, Jen suggests "The Hypnotist" by Lars Kepler, highlighting its fast-paced murder mystery and engaging plot twists.
"The chapters are two pages long. You move, you'll read it in a weekend... it's a really fast-moving murder mystery."

8. Drink Preferences and Recommendations

[40:22] Luke Burbank:
Luke and Jen delve into their beverage preferences, particularly focusing on vodka choices.
"I switched at some point to vodka soda... with cucumber infused vodka, it was so good."
Jen contrasts this with beer choices, emphasizing moderation and taste, while Luke humorously contemplates carrying cucumber extract for enhanced flavor without additional calories.

9. Listener Emails and Interactive Segments

[43:54] Jen Flash Andrews:
The hosts address listener emails, attempting to identify songs based on partial lyrics. Despite some challenges, they engage in playful attempts to recognize tracks like Shawn Marshall’s "Lived in Bars" and a mysterious pop culture-infused song that blends elements reminiscent of The Strokes and Smash Mouth.

10. Closing Remarks

[51:46] Luke Burbank:
As the episode wraps up, Luke humorously comments on the show's ongoing audio quirks and the lack of detailed music listings,
"Someday we will have a team of interns and a bitchin website and it'll have all of the music we play listed every day."
Jen and Luke sign off with light-hearted goodbyes, maintaining the episode’s engaging and whimsical tone.

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Notable Quotes:

• Luke Burbank:
  "I have made a huge mistake." — [03:03] (Discussing audio levels and hearing issues)

• Jen Flash Andrews:
  "Twitter judging is the worst kind." — [10:13]

• Luke Burbank:
  "The show just gets better and better, doesn't it?" — [11:31] (On audio level feedback)

• Jen Flash Andrews:
  "I love Jesus, but I drink a little." — [02:05] (On her relationship with faith and drinking)

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Conclusion:
Episode #918 of TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live offers a blend of humor, personal insights, and topical discussions. From addressing technical challenges and personal health to analyzing media figures and engaging with listeners, Luke and Jen maintain a dynamic and entertaining dialogue. Their recommendations on movies and books, coupled with interactive music segments and playful sponsorships, create a rich and varied listening experience for both regular and new audiences.

Transcript

[Luke Burbank]

Hi.

[Cathy Mitchell]

Cathy Mitchell here in the kitchen with a brand new exciting product called the Griddleman. And I have a friend to help me introduce it to you. From Channel 5 News, Dr. Steve Bruhl. Have you ever bought a panini at a restaurant?

[Luke Burbank]

What's a panini?

[Cathy Mitchell]

Panini's a sandwich.

[Luke Burbank]

Well then why don't you call it a panini?

[Cathy Mitchell]

Well, panini's Italian. I think it means grilled in Italian.

[Luke Burbank]

What's Italian?

[Cathy Mitchell]

That's a country in Europe. Looks like a boot. Kind of shaved out.

[Luke Burbank]

Like a cowboy boot. Look at that.

[Cathy Mitchell]

Doesn't that look amazing, Kathy?

[Luke Burbank]

I can't wait. I have to take a bite of this panini.

[Cathy Mitchell]

All right, well be real careful because it's hot.

[Luke Burbank]

I think I burned my tongue.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Tbtl.

[Luke Burbank]

Alright, if you're suffering through any kind of mouth related injury, it's alright because we will do the talking for you for the next 60 or so minutes here on this Wednesday afternoon edition of tbtl. This is the show that's probably too beautiful to live.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Let the great experiment begin.

[Luke Burbank]

My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. We have all kinds of stuff to get to on this Wednesday. Hi. This is Luke's mom Susie.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Coming tonight on tbtl, one of our.

[Luke Burbank]

Very, very favorite TV personalities is hanging it up.

[Andy Rooney]

Let the fun begin.

[Luke Burbank]

After over 260 years on the air, Andy Rooney is going to be calling it, calling it a day after next week. And finally we can start calling 60 minutes 60 minutes again as opposed to what we refer to it on this show, at least what I refer to it as, which is 55 minutes. We will ponder the career of Mr. Andy Rooney in just a moment. Also, it's Wednesday so we like to tell you about things that are pretty cool. It's pretty cool. As always, Jen has a long list of things that are pretty cool. As always, my list of things that are pretty cool is a little bit on the shorter side. Speaking of Jen, Flash Andrews. I love Jesus, but I drink a little. Longtime producer of the program, she is sitting right over there. Hiya.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Hi.

[Luke Burbank]

How are you doing?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I'm doing okay. My mic was a little hot.

[Luke Burbank]

No, no, it's okay. Okay. Everything is a. Okay.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Do you get those emails all the time from people? They're like, could you please, please make your levels more even? We're trying.

[Luke Burbank]

It's so interesting that you say that here at the top of the show, Jen, because that is something I have on my list to talk about. So on Monday night I did comedy at the Neptune Theater and it was a great time. And there was some tens there and we had a really fun time hanging out and talking. We. I had a fun time. I was pretty drunk by the end of it. So I don't know if they had a fun time or not, but one of them at the very end of the night, after hours and hours, I think felt comfortable enough to finally share with me. And actually this was a commonly held opinion that I have been playing the drops too loud. Really for the entire time that TBTL has been a non radio show.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Which is to say since you've been the engineer.

[Luke Burbank]

Since I've been the engineer, I've been basically making a huge. I've made a huge mistake. I've been making a huge mistake. And it was so funny because they were so, like they didn't want to hurt my feelings. It's kind of like telling someone they have a, you know, I don't know, halitosis or something. It's like you're trying to be so delicate about it, but also you just want to make sure that they do know that those are a little bit loud. But here's the thing. And this is what makes those guys such jerks. I have a disability. I really do. Did you know this?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No.

[Luke Burbank]

I only found this out recently in working on the radio show again. But there is a frequency that I don't hear as well as other people. This is. I am being absolutely, completely honest with this because every time we have a phone guest on, every time we play a piece of tape, I'm always going, it's too low. And I turn around and go to the engineer, I say, why is it so low? I go to the producer, Andrew, I say to Dave, and everyone else is like, no, it sounds totally fine. And it always sounds too low for me. And if it's either phone tape, which a lot of our drops are phone tape, or if it's just audio that's being played for whatever reason at a certain kind of. Again, like a frequency, I don't hear it as well as other people because now I've done. I've probably done 20 sort of tests or comparisons where there's a piece of audio being played. And I go to everyone involved. And this is. We've had fill in producers and I've asked them the same question. We've had other people, Tom Tangney sitting across from me. I'm always like, that sounded really quiet to me. Does that sound quiet to you? And everyone says, nope, sounds totally fine. So what I've realized Is. So what I'm going to have to do going forward is play the drops in such a way that they actually sound too quiet to me. But they will be like, for instance.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I think that's as difficult as like singing off key when you're actually a good singer. Like, I think to go against your every instinct and lower the volume is actually gonna be a real test of will.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, let me, let me ask you, for instance, how does this, how does this drop sound to you?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Here's my sweet stash. Let's freakin party. Fine.

[Luke Burbank]

Fine. But a little low.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

A little low.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, well maybe we have the same problem because that sounds really low to me.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Huh?

[Luke Burbank]

But I'm just gonna watch the levels now.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And just basically go with it because that and the folks at the comedy show, they were not the only people who've mentioned this. This has been, as you said, the topic of many emails for, for many, many years. What's pretty sweet is that everyone's just been putting up with it. It's like, like when you're, when you're, you know, your granddad is farting at the, at the Thanksgiving meal, you're like, well, he's 90.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And everybody's like, I just really keep my finger on the volume and I just ride it up and down.

[Luke Burbank]

I know. Well, I'm sorry, you guys, for subjecting you to that. In my defense, it was only for about four to five hundred shows. So I'm gonna try. I'm gonna really, really try. So that was, that was one of the things I wanted to kind of talk about right up here at the top of the show. The other thing is, and I would. Excuse me. I would have mentioned that whole thing from Monday night on Tuesday, except for, as everyone has now noticed, I didn't come into work yesterday because I woke up Tuesday morning and I just was like, I had no speaking voice. It was, my voice was a shot. I mean, even right now it's a little rough, but this is about a 80 to 90% improvement over what my voice sounded like on Tuesday morning. But so I didn't make it in for the radio show and. Thank you, Jen. By the way, what time did they call you out to have you? 5:15am oh my God, I'm so glad you keep. What, do you keep your phone on the nightstand or something?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, it's in my purse. It was a fumbling kind of situation. Well, I thought it was an, like a family emergency. We had this house explode in Seattle. For people who don't know like at.

[Luke Burbank]

6Am on your family just.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

It happened in the city of Seattle, our community. This house exploded from an external gas leak. And so, you know, it was like, not in their house. It was a gas leak out in the street, which has put everyone on edge a little bit. And also they keep finding more gas leaks, but that's a whole other story.

[Luke Burbank]

Right.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Anyway, so I think everybody feels a little on edge about the whole situation. And then I started thinking, like, what if it's a terrorist plot? And what if every morning at 6am a house is gonna explode Unless Keanu.

[Luke Burbank]

Reeves can stop it.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah, well, there's some. Somebody's being held hostage somewhere. I mean, what if some big thing is going on that none of us are aware of? But, like, every morning at 6am a house is gonna explode. And then I kind of allowed myself to think about that. And then I fell asleep. And then at 5:15, I was sound asleep, my phone started ringing and I thought, oh my God, my sister's house exploded. But I didn't. It was just that you were sick.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, what happened was I sent a tweet last night, and the tweet said, the Ted Nugent guy sitting next to me at the bar. This guy looked exactly like Ted Nugent is going over his band's set list. He had like a. Like a three ring binder. Actually, it was funny because it was. It was in a way, very formal. It was a three ring binder and it had these songs with the music, like sheet music, and they were in those plastic sleeves. Thought, interesting for a Ted Nugent looking guy to have it that organized. And the first song was you're so.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Gay by Katy Perry.

[Luke Burbank]

Is that really a song?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Called you're so Gay.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Well, it's spelled you are you're so gay.

[Luke Burbank]

This one maybe he had retyped because this one was actually spelled correctly. Yeah, it was spelled correctly. It's also possible this was shared brain syndrome, where this guy already had a song called you'd're so gay. He looked like the guy who might write a song called you'd're so gay. But the point is, I sent that tweet out. And then what followed were a number of tweets. Excuse me. Of people saying, oh, I see. You can't make it in for the show, but you're out at a bar. They're basically accusing me of being a big fat liar. Lying is like 95% of what I do. And all I wanted to say was.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

You don't know what my doctor prescribes.

[Luke Burbank]

I could just need an old Irish remedy, medicinal. And B of all, I was at the effing thing that I had told everyone on the website I was going to do, which was this interview with the author, Simon Reynolds, about his book about nostalgia and retromania. The book's actually called Retromania. And what I was. If you could just for all of you who were. Who were, like, mad at me or something, that I was at a bar, I was upstairs at the Rendezvous waiting for the thing to start reading a book, and I was drinking a club soda. So I just wanted to clarify for everyone that I was not playing hooky from whatever my yesterday. I wasn't basically playing hooky from the radio show on the podcast.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

From all of your jobs.

[Luke Burbank]

Right.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

So you did the best you could because you were. You had a Sophie's Choice.

[Luke Burbank]

I did. And also that had the radio show. If the radio show was a thing that started 7:00 at night, I probably would have been fine for that.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Or the podcast. So to all the people who were, you know, judging me via Twitter, you know what?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Twitter judging is the worst kind.

[Luke Burbank]

It absolutely is. And I would. I would mention not to brag, but right now, I am leading the evening magazine Best of Western Washington local Twitter personality contest. So if you would like me to continue on in my obviously incredible Twittering ways, don't judge me when I send what's supposed to be a funny tweet. Don't get up on your high horse and then climb on the high horse and then ride it up onto a soapbox. As my friend Carrie says, don't do that, because then you're just gonna make me not want to tweet things.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

You only hurt yourself.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. You guys are the big losers in that because you won't get my amazing tweets anymore. So that's all I wanted to say here at the top of the show. But again, seriously, Jen, thank you for covering for me yesterday. I'm on the road to recovery, I'm pretty sure. And let's start that journey with our top story for the day.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Hello and welcome to Top Story.

[Luke Burbank]

Sounds a little low to me. Can you imagine if I just go the next 400 episodes, noting every single time the audio sounds low?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

The show just gets better and better, doesn't it?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, man. Andy Rooney is retiring from 60 minutes and this week will be his last, his last time ever, sitting behind that gigantic kind of weird slab of wood desk that he has.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I don't know that it's his last time ever. Because I did see that CBS said that at 92, it's just gotten harder and harder for him to do it. But if he really feels like he has something, you know, they're open to him coming back now and again, we might get some special guest appearances.

[Luke Burbank]

I have been. I have been again, battling illness, so I have not quite been as. I've not been quite as plugged into this as you have, Jen. But, like, first, didn't they announce he was resigning? And then the next day the story was, no, he's resigning. No, we said resigning, but he didn't hear us because he's very old. What? I'm resigning.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

It's very interesting to me that it's so immediate, you know what I mean?

[Luke Burbank]

Like, if they've taken his key card, like, what if they found just a trove of really upsetting porn on his work computer?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I mean, Regis announced, I feel like four years ago that he wasn't resigning his contract and he's now announced his last day and it's like December 15th. I mean, we've been in the goodbye to Regis for years, right?

[Luke Burbank]

There's no victory lap, but Andy Rooney.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

It'S like four days and you're out.

[Luke Burbank]

I feel weird judging Andy Rooney as harshly as I do, because Andy Rooney does a thing that a lot of people really like and he is, to his credit, very much himself. And it's kind of like you're either into this or not into it.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Although, I mean, have you ever met anyone who likes Andy Rooney? I mean, I think that's an urban legend that there's Andy Rooney fans.

[Luke Burbank]

I know the reason I'm nervous about criticizing him is because you could. All of the things about Andy Rooney that people don't like could be attributed to this show, too. We're just kind of doing what we're doing. If you don't like it, just go listen to something else. A lot of people are like, it's not funny or interesting to me. I don't get the appeal. And so I don't usually like people who just dismiss things because it's like they don't get it. But I would just say I don't really get Andy Rooney and I've never understood what the appeal was. Do you think it's just generational? Is it like, if you're.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Well, it's interesting because I feel like the reason I don't like him is that he's so complain y. But, I mean, I would just point to your relationship with Comcast to Say that this show can be kind of complaining, right? So I don't. I don't know if it's. I always feel like it's just all he ever has to say is how something annoys him or confounds him. It's one or the other. Those are the only stories he's telling. And so if he had mixed it up a little bit, I think. And a lot of it just, to me seems really obvious. But I think it's probably when he first started complaining about how they put cotton in pill bottles. It was probably the 70s, and that seemed groundbreaking. But now, I mean, to me, complaining about cotton in pill bottles has been done right.

[Luke Burbank]

Every. Well, I mean, I have to be honest with you, I have rarely. Rarely made it through to Andy Rooney. But, like, every time I would actually think, well, maybe there's something I'm not getting about this. And I would watch it. It would just. It would just. It would. It would always under. It would always underwhelm me. And I would always just think to myself, is this something that old people like? Does it tap into. Does it just tap into a kind of, I don't know, annoyance at the world, a misunderstanding of the. Of the larger world that we, the young people, just don't feel? But you're right, by the way. You're absolutely right that we go into. Well, I won't say you. Well, yeah, you. A little bit. We go into Andy Rooney territory all the time on this show, and when we do it, I'm like, well, it's delightful. We're just. We're just pointing out that, you know, that the TSA is really annoying. Have you heard the tape of when he was. When Ali G interviewed him? No, I just grabbed this at random, which means there's a good chance this audio will be terrible. Or not the thing I'm looking for, but.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Or in Arabic.

[Luke Burbank]

All of those, I would. I would say, are more likely than not here. But let's see if this is the right piece of tape.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Are you.

[Andy Rooney]

And you've done this before?

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Yo, I mean, I was.

[Andy Rooney]

Have you ever done this before?

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Yo, for real, I've done. I mean, I come.

[Andy Rooney]

What is your language? Your basic language? English. No, for real. So what language are you most comfortable in?

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Yo. English.

[Luke Burbank]

For real.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

I was from England and how shall I introduce it?

[Andy Rooney]

That's your business, not mine. Look, I'm getting very close to the end of this. Yeah, go ahead, do what you have to do.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Yo, check it. I is here with none other than my main man, Andy Rooney, total respect. And today we is chatting about the media. The media is well important in it.

[Andy Rooney]

It is important. If a democracy is important, people have to know what's going on in the world. That's why the media is important.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Does you think the media has changed since you first got in it?

[Andy Rooney]

Does you think the media has changed? Do you think the media has changed? No, it's English. The English language would say do you think the media has changed? Changed? Not does you think the media has changed? Yes, I think the media has changed.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

So what sort of things does you think the media should cover?

[Andy Rooney]

Do you think the media.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Do you think the media. I think it's an English American thing though, isn't it?

[Andy Rooney]

No, no, no, no, that's English. The English language is very clear. I have 50 books on the English language if you like, like to borrow one.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Let's talk about some mistakes that has happened or not happened. Has journalists ever put out tomorrow's news by mistake?

[Andy Rooney]

How do you know what the news is if it hasn't happened yet?

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Yeah, but if there was something like, well, important like a plane crash, wouldn't you report that like a day early?

[Andy Rooney]

How would you report a plane crash that happens tomorrow, today?

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

All right, safe. Well, you couldn't do that. But let's say it was something like, like the election, which is like a massive thing. Wouldn't you report who won that like a few days before because it's going to be such a massive story that everyone will want to know about it and reads about it.

[Andy Rooney]

You don't know who won it, do you, until it's the election is over, how can you report it before it happens?

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Your full will?

[Andy Rooney]

Okay, I think that's about it.

[Luke Burbank]

Now my point in playing that number one is I just love that clip because Ali G is being so funny. But that to me, okay, the people that I think of, I know that Andy Rooney's would probably not describe himself as a humorist, right? That's not his job.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

He's not trying to be funny.

[Luke Burbank]

And I guess maybe that's part of the problem is how I think of him because the people who I think of as being funny and, and who I really look up to like a Stephen Colbert, a Jon Stewart, there's a self awareness there, there's a getting it. Not that you even have to necessarily get that Ali G as a character that's being done by this guy Sacha Baron Cohen, but it's like you can just hear in Andy Rooney's voice just his complete like at some Point, if you were being interviewed by that guy, a normal person, a person of our age or our ilk would just start laughing. It would start to become really amusing at some point because it's so ridiculous. But it's like Andy Rooney. It's just like it's on his last nerve the whole time. And that to me is, that's Andy Rooney in his natural state. Like, we see him on TV every Sunday night and he's doing a bit maybe, right? So maybe he's a really nice guy who's really, like likable and kind of, you know, I don't know, just warm hearted. But he just plays this character during his commentaries. No, he's that guy. He's just an angry, rumpled old man who doesn't know what the fuck's going on.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And.

[Luke Burbank]

And I just am like really happy that I don't have to deal with him anymore. And by deal with him, I mean hit fast forward to him, just hit stop. I don't even, you know, it's like I don't even have to go to the end of the show. I just hit stop. And then it's like delete. And then every. So I guess I didn't have to deal with him a lot, but I'm not mourning his loss. But then I'm wondering if, you know, if I'm being, if I'm, if I and them somehow am being an Andy Rooney by dancing on his grave, the grave of his also. Do you think he will? I don't mean this sounds a little bit disrespectful, but how long do you think he's gonna live without doing this segment?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Well, it completely depends on what the health situation is because he seems totally healthy and fine. But then the CBS producer said, you know, it's getting harder and harder for him to do the segment every week, so maybe he's already in decline.

[Luke Burbank]

I just mean, you know, they, it's like when someone's been doing something as long as he has, it's obviously the center of his life. And without that to sort of give him some purpose, I wonder if he doesn't, you know, I mean, although I'll say 92 years, that's a long time. And, you know, he spent about 90 of it on the air with 60 Minutes grumbling and, you know, getting paid for it. So I guess, I guess he's had a good run, right?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Well. Oh, by the way, you had thought of some possible replacements for him?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yep. Well, okay, so CBS Sunday Morning, they already do this Thing at the end of every single episode, which is that somebody does a two minute commentary.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah, I'm supposed to do one of those.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

You would be so good on that.

[Luke Burbank]

I mean, literally, I'm supposed to do one. I just haven't gotten around to writing it.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Well, then that's what they do is they. And you know, it's like Mo Rocca or Ben Stein or, you know, so sometimes it's kind of political, sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's a little bit like, you know, it annoys me. Sketchers that make your butt flat or whatever. But it's so they kind of mix it up. So I don't want 60 Minutes to do that. Like, I want them to actually have another permanent person who sits, who does the commentary at the end. But, you know, the easy one to go to is Mickey Rooney because they have the same last name and he's a spitfire and he has lots of great stories.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh my God, that would be the best. I would look forward to that all week.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And then, you know, Lewis Black is already kind of doing a younger Andy Rooney. Angrier.

[Luke Burbank]

Although somehow Lewis Black is less funny than Andy Rooney. I mean, seriously, how is Lewis Black? How did he. If Jon Stewart didn't for whatever reason, have some bizarre sort of appreciation of Lewis Black, I don't think we would. Any of us would be even aware he exists. I feel like he is to anger. I would say he is. His sort of angry shtick is to comedy as a prayer. Home companions folksy nature is to comedy. There's still never a joke there. Like, the problem with a Pre Home Companion when they're trying to be funny is unless you're talking about their actual joke show, which is a bunch of like, you know, jokes with punchlines. The problem is they do these sketches and things where there's just never the joke. They'll just say something that's kind of like, you know, the cowboys will be going, well, look at those buildings. Man, they're so tall. You can see them from here. The end. Like, that's not a joke, Right. Similarly, Lewis Black just gets angry and goes this.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And he starts and his fingers shake.

[Luke Burbank]

And he shakes his fingers and it doesn't even mean it's really a joke. But then it's like his glasses are to slide off his nose and everyone's like, boy, that guy get worked up.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah, he's. And he's way too harsh and he's way. He just. He's not going to work for CBS anyway. And Andy's already He's already kind of doing Andy. What I imagine Andy Rooney was like when andy Rooney was 50. So I don't think. I don't think that'll work. But who I really think might be an idea is Jamie Lee Curtis. Because if you read her column on the HuffPost, it's basically Andy Rooney. It is always like, I don't get these girls who don't wear panties. When I was growing up, we all wore panties. Like, every single column she writes for Levity and Post sounds exactly like an Andy Rooney thing. And she's female, and she's a movie star, and she's married to Christopher Guest. I mean, she has a lot. You know who her parents are.

[Luke Burbank]

You could have. The thing could be sponsored by that pooping yogurt that she eats.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Activa or whatever. Yeah, I think so. I was thinking about her.

[Luke Burbank]

That's not a bad idea.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Zach Galifianakis, I think, also would be, like, super interesting. And his mind works in a way where he observes things that are totally not how our minds work. That would kind of blow your mind.

[Luke Burbank]

A little bit if they could get him to. If they could get him to sign on to do it. I'm not just saying this because I'm a fan of his, which I am, but that would be a really interesting direction to take it. So it wasn't just a complaint, but it was just kind of like an observational thing, because Galifianakis isn't as mad at everything or as put off by the world as, like, Andy Rooney is. But whatever it is that he was sort of fascinated with for two and a half minutes or three minutes each week, I would watch that in a second.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah, that's what I'm really rooting for. Because there's people like Michael Moore or even. I was joking about Danica Patrick. Like, there's people that are already spending all their life being kind of outraged.

[Luke Burbank]

She would just come around, throw her helmet at the camera every week.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

You know, there's already people that stomp around and are angry all the time. So I don't think they should go in that kind of obvious direction.

[Luke Burbank]

I just don't. I don't think it needs to be based on anger at all.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, I don't either.

[Luke Burbank]

Why not have. I mean, if he wasn't already so overbooked, I would watch Colbert do it every Sunday. Although, you know, there's not a lack of Colbert in our life is the one thing.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Right.

[Luke Burbank]

What about, like, Robert Krulwich, the guy from NPR and Radio Lab like he just is always, just. He's always fascinated. Like, I think this is a real chance for CBS to take this out of just being a complainathon and turn it into somebody who's just go the opposite direction of Andy Rooney, which is to say somebody like Crow, which just utterly fascinated and joyful about something every week.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

By the way, Mike Pesca yesterday was.

[Luke Burbank]

Mike Pesca would be a great one.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

He was great.

[Luke Burbank]

Yes, he would be. Let's start a movement.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yes. So he was tweeting yesterday, like, who should replace Andy? And one of the tens tweeted at him. What about tbtl, Jen? And Mike answered, too old. So I had to get on into it.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, geez.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I said, I can't tell you. Like the joy of being mentioned in a Twitter, in a tweet by Mike Pesca and then the following sadness when it's too old.

[Luke Burbank]

Actually, that's true. Jen, you would be awesome at this because you're doing a version of that every day on tbtl, which is observing the world, sort of coming up with a pretty clear thought on a lot of different topics that most people probably just sort of let go by. You've got a. Kind of got a theory about everything.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

And you're, you're mostly on the joyful side of it, as opposed to the rageful side.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Maybe I should put together some. And send him off.

[Luke Burbank]

Absolutely. Or better yet, maybe some of the listeners should just edit down some of your choicest bits and we could submit those. That would be. I mean, look, Conan O'Brien got his show when he was an unknown. He was, what, 32 or 33, and no one had ever heard of him. Why couldn't Jen, Why couldn't you become.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I know, the next great of them? Because he wasn't, you know, he was just probably a journalist or something. He was a young guy.

[Luke Burbank]

He hadn't, like in the 1800s.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

When he started it.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah. Well, that was the great thing is he could see TV was coming, so.

[Luke Burbank]

He started practicing and started working out. Yeah, started, you know, just getting in. Getting in game shape.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

By the way, I just wanted to say about that ology thing. Seth Rogen was on the Daily show last night because he's in this new movie called 50 50, and it's about his real life experience with his friend Will Reiser, who got cancer. So the story is that they were. Seth was a writer on Ali G and Will was a producer.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, really?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

They actually, their group of friends actually think that being a producer on Ali G might have Given him cancer because they said the stress of like booking somebody because the whole time you're lying to them, it's all a lie. All you do all day is lie and lie and lie. And then it's like tape day. And you're literally like, you've set this whole thing up that's based totally on a lie and you don't know how the person's gonna handle it. Can you imagine?

[Luke Burbank]

I can't. I cannot imagine it. I would be. Those are the kinds of situations that I go to great lengths to avoid ever having happened in my real life. And imagine if your whole sort of career, whether you're Sacha Baron Cohen or one of the producers, is based on creating those moments. When I interviewed Sacha Baron Cohen talking about the scene in Borat where he goes, he's at those people's house and he goes. And he poops into a bag and he's going to bring it back downstairs. I was like, what's going on in your mind when you're up in the bathroom and you've now shit into a bag and you're about to go downstairs and present it at like a family meal? And he's like, I just feel, I think he said something to the effect of like, I feel like I'm just, I'm holding a loaded gun and I'm about to walk downstairs and start waving it around. So even he. Yeah, I don't, I don't understand how, how on earth he's capable of, of keeping a straight face and also of not, not letting, like, when he is as Bruno, when he's like trying to sex up Ron Paul, it's so, so awkward. So awkward. I don't know how, I don't know how he does it. And I think I would develop cancer if I had to help produce that day in and day out. The other thing I've mentioned on this show a lot is the funniest or the most surprising part of that conversation that I had with him was how non receptive he was to anyone asking him about his religion. Real stuff. Yeah. Because he's an orthodox Jew. And the story was that he had asked his wife to convert Isla Fisher to convert to Judaism, which is a pretty big step. And for a guy who's kind of like out there in the world basically making fun of other people's true beliefs, like, wow, dude, that's a pretty sincere thing for you to do, right? To something like, how would you feel about other people? I say that. Then I think about the whole. When Bruno dresses up like a really sexy hasidum, and he's, like, running through the streets of, like, Jerusalem or something. But anyway, as I asked him that, like, the words were barely out of my mouth. And he's going, you're trying to bore at me right now. You're trying to Borat me. And his, like, handlers come in and they're, like, trying to pull him out of the studio. And.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And how in any way, is that anything close to Borat ing somebody asking a genuine question?

[Luke Burbank]

I'm not secretly a Kazakh journalist who's pretending to be an American journalist who's sitting there. I mean, what. What I p on him was a totally reasonable question that I asked in a respectful way that was supposed to just kind of get him talking about. So I was amazing.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Really. More like, you Anderson Coopered him.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly. Although I've heard from people that Anderson has been like. Somebody said that they turned on the show the other day and they just couldn't even believe what they were watching. Like, it was just, you know, all of those kind of crappy TV doctors talking about some kind of a, you know, very middle of the road medical thing that was obviously aimed at ladies, you know what I mean? Kind of like.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Well, because now he's trying to do jobs that ostensibly hit two different audiences, and he's probably trying to make it all under one tent and that it.

[Luke Burbank]

Always ruins the product he had his mom on. And I think they were talking about his brother's suicide, which I believe has been a topic that he's been pretty. You know, he hasn't been super into talking about it because it's obviously a real, actual tragedy in his family. But now it's like, trot it on out time for the daytime television show. And it's like, in order for that thing to be a success, he's gonna have to do a lot of shit on there that probably the smart part of his brain is like, we don't want to do it.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And it's also gonna mean that his CNN show is gonna suffer because he's not gonna be able to be at all the meetings. And it's probably. You get to a point where you're so tired and stretched out that you're like, all right, because you don't want to fight about it or come up with your own idea.

[Luke Burbank]

He's not gonna be able to go fly off to, you know, Rwanda at a moment's notice. Which has been a big part of his appeal, too, is he always just goes to wherever the crazy Stuff is going down. It's too bad. And we actually wondered this when the announcement first came out. It's like, what's he trying to accomplish? Would he trade all of his CNN cred and all of his journalism to just be the next Oprah? He'd certainly.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Apparently.

[Luke Burbank]

He would certainly be very rich from it. But he's already fined for money. I mean, forget he even had the show. He's a Vanderbilt.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah, I know.

[Luke Burbank]

So it's like, what does he. Does he like, is he just doing it? Because it would. It would, it would. It would represent something that's more high profile than what he's doing. Because it seems like what he's been doing. I'm just. I'm rehashing exactly the conversation we had before, but it seems like what he's. What he was doing before was exactly what he wanted to be doing. He's interviewing important people. He's asking interesting questions. He's going to where stuff is happening and he's getting paid really well for it. And he's well known and respected. He's got all of that going for him. He's like, I want to trade it all for talking about moms who cheat. I don't understand why he wants to make that transition.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I know. I honestly feel so confused by the whole thing, and especially now that the product is out there and you can watch it. I do not understand what he was thinking or what his goal is or what this is adding to his life.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, let's take a moment to ponder that while we play you a little music from the band called Sea Pony, which my cousin is in, but that's not where we're playing them. I liked this band even before he joined, but they're playing as part of the City arts Festival, Friday, October 21, at the Moore Theater. They are playing with Built to Spill. And this is a song called Dreaming. Back with more TBTL in a moment. The.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I don't want to be like everybody else.

[Luke Burbank]

Welcome back to tbtl, the show that's probably too beautiful to live, where we play all of the audio just. Just a little bit quieter than we think we should. These ones go to seven. Why don't you just make eight quieter? These go to seven.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

It works in reverse.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. We have official sponsorship of this program from Chateau St. Michel. They're the official wine sponsor of the program. And we had an interesting trend start. We read one of the emails maybe a week or so ago, somebody in Georgia whose mom and dad were going to a Bulldog's Tailgating party. And they brought the wine, the Chateau Salmon show. They were very excited. They had everyone singing the Don't Kill no Salmon song, which is, again, I just. If I could have just been a fly on the wall observing that whole situation. Someone's parents singing a weird song written by one of our listeners about a wine. And then somebody else just emailed me the other day. I'll find the email and read it to you in one of the coming days. But same thing. Their parents were emailing them and have become these devoted Chateau St. Michel consumers because of us talking about it on TBTL. And then our listeners, we're classing up our parents generation. That's exactly what we're doing. And it's all thanks to your patronage out there, the tens of listeners, which really thank you guys for buying it and letting them know that you heard about it on tbtl. If you are in the grocery store or wine shop and you're just kind of like your eyes are glazing over because there's so many different things you could buy, just grab a bottle of Chateau St. Michel. Or you can also get it online. If you want to go to tbtl.net There's a big button on the right side of the page. They have all kinds of cool, like, phone apps and stuff, too. Like, one of them actually tells you what kind of wine goes with what kind of food. So if you're at a restaurant, maybe you're on a date and you want to look classy, just excuse yourself, tell them, I'm sorry, I have explosive diarrhea. And you go to the bathroom, and then you get on your phone and you go to the My Cellar's app, and you actually can go, well, I'm gonna get the fish. What goes with it? And it will tell you right then what kind of wine to pair. Then you can come back and sit down and order the wine and look really fancy. Super fancy. A big thanks chat to St Michel for sponsoring the show. They are the official wine sponsor of tbtl. Chateau Saint Michelangelo, Woodinville, Washington. All right, it's Wednesday, and that's the day when we like to tell you about things that are that are pretty cool. It's pretty cool. One of the things on your list, Jen, is a thing that I'm planning on seeing in the next day or two. So I can't yet say if it's pretty cool. But all. All the buzz is that it is, in fact, very cool. You want to recommend the movie Drive?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yes. The new Ryan Gosling film. And I will say that the second half of the film contains a few scenes that are extremely violent in that I actually didn't. I had to actually close my eyes because it was very, very violent. But it didn't take away from my complete enjoyment of the movie and thinking it's totally like a modern day film noir. It's like you're watching an old Humphrey Bogart film, but it's in like modern day downtown LA with like Ryan Gosling, but they follow the rules of film noir. It's totally gripping and cool and shadowy and it asks a lot of really interesting questions about what it is to be a human being versus what it is to be a hero. And if those two things can just a human being be a hero and your flaws and how that plays in Kerry Mulligan is amazing. And Ryan Gosling, who hardly has any dialogue at all, but grips you the entire time.

[Luke Burbank]

But he is naked the entire movie.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, he's not.

[Luke Burbank]

She said wistfully.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

But he's amazing because like I said, he doesn't have hardly any dialogue and he just completely owns the screen the whole time. So I do recommend Drive, although the violence is a little because the first half of the film is in no way violent. And so it's kind of shocking when it starts getting violent. And I mean violent like in a Tarantino way where it's spraying blood.

[Luke Burbank]

Right.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And then the other thing I've been. So I've had these weird internal rules about what to recommend that I have to love, love, love it. And I get so many requests for like, I just want a good book to read. And I'm always hesitant to recommend something if I didn't love it over the top. But it's pretty cool. So that's the name of this thing.

[Luke Burbank]

You have to realize that it's based on a Saturday Night Live sketch hosted by a fake Miley Cyrus. This is not inclusion into the Best American Short Stories Anthology or some Kind of August. It's not a Nobel Prize. It's pretty cool.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah. And I read a lot of books this month and so I'm just gonna say what was the best one? And now one thing that I fall for every time is when an ad says the next Stieg Larsson. Everybody's looking for the next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and I fall for that every time. And so far none of them have been that good. But this one is called the Hypnotist, and it's by Lars Kepler and it takes place in Sweden and it's a really fast Moving murder mystery. I mean, the chapters are two pages long. You move, you'll read it in a weekend. You'll be surprised by the twists at the end. And then they actually do make sense. Like all of it makes sense. It's a good, gripping book. And it's set in the same place, and so it has that same. It's always interesting to read a book that's set in a place that now has kind of become in our minds this magical place of Stieg Larsson. They're going to the same coffee shops and driving up the same streets and all that kind of stuff. So I would say that the Hypnotist by Lars Kepler is pretty cool. And it's worth. If you just are looking for a fun, easy read or a read on a plane, something to just take your mind off things, it's great for that.

[Luke Burbank]

Can I mention something that's just a food, actually, a drink? Does it have to be pop culture? Does it have to be a book or movie?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, I think it just has to be something that people can also pick up.

[Luke Burbank]

People could pick this up. It's actually a drink that I had at. What is it called? Skillet. Have you been to Skillet?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Not since they became a real store.

[Luke Burbank]

Well, yeah, they were a food cart here in Seattle and then they were so popular, they actually got a space and opened it up. And now it's like a real restaurant. And everything there is kind of amazing. But here's what I had.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

How drunk are you?

[Andy Rooney]

A lot to vary.

[Luke Burbank]

So this has been my quest with figuring out which kind of cocktails to have. If I had my Druthers, I would have Tanqueray and tonic most of the time. That's been my standard drink forever. But the thing is, if you have a lot of those, you're starting to really add up on the calories with the tonic. And so I switched at some point to vodka soda. Now, I've never really liked vodka soda that much, but it's like, it tastes like a drink and it's way fewer calories and you're less hungover the next.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Day and you don't drink as much because it's not as tasty.

[Luke Burbank]

Right. That's a good point. Well, I still drink as much, maybe even more, because I tell myself this is a health drink, but. Right. A normal person would probably have. They would consume even more.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

So that's sometimes why I'll order a dark beer, because that's gonna take me two hours to get through. Whereas if I got a glass of Wine. I could get through four glasses of wine in two hours.

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, that's an interesting self regulation. Well, I was at Skillet and I said, I asked him what kind of vodka he had or something, and for some reason he's like, we have all these infused vodkas. I usually stay away from anything that's infused with anything that just seems hokey. But they had this cucumber infused vodka. So I was like, okay, I'll try that. So basically I had a vodka soda, but with cucumber vodka, it was so good. I couldn't believe. Was actually more enjoyable to me than a gin and tonic. But the cucumber adds nothing in terms of calories or there's nothing bad going on. And I actually started to think, is there like a cucumber extract? Is there a powder or a small distilled cucumber liquid that I could carry around with me?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Just drop it in.

[Luke Burbank]

Just drop like an eyelet.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And then you look at the people at the bar staring at you and say, it's medicinal.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah. Because if I could have every vodka soda I have for the rest of my life be with cucumber infused vodka. It was refreshing. It was summery. Because you know how sometimes you go to a restaurant and they've. The water has cucumber in it. You know how great that is? It's like the most refreshing thing ever. Imagine that. But also there's medicine in it, AKA vodka. So I don't know if that's really a. It had just never occurred to me. And I feel like it has really solved this problem for me, which is my feeling like vodka soda is a much better way to go for me most of the time. But also my not liking it as much. And now I feel like this is a perfect solution.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I've done the orange, the absolute orange and absolute lemon. Like, I've actually done a lot of the vodkas that have flavors, but it seemed like they were getting wilder and wilder, like with blueberry and stuff like that.

[Luke Burbank]

Absolute popcorn.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

But that sounds good. I mean, I love cucumber in my water.

[Luke Burbank]

Exactly.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And vodka is just more special water.

[Luke Burbank]

That's right. Strong waters. Okay, so that's a pretty lame. It's pretty cool for me. But as I learned from Jen, we're lowering the bar for the segment today just to things that we think are, you know, are at least sort of a little bit cool. Okay, let's check the. Let's check the email situation. Here I go once again with the.

[Dr. Steve Bruhl]

Email every week from a female. Oh, man.

[Luke Burbank]

It's not from a female. Where's the first one from? Is it from a female Flash?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, it's from Michael. Okay, Jen, I am trying to figure out the title and artist of the song played during the musical interlude on the show 894The Mummy Returns. It was female vocalist and started with a simple piano chord. Thanks. So let me play a little bit of that for Luke so he can explain what is going on here.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Hotel straights and ships that sail we swim with sharks and fly aeroplanes in.

[Luke Burbank]

The air.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Sitting in the trucks the marching wheelchair Open the blankets and give them some air Swords and arches Bones and cement the light in the dark of the innocent of men do you recognize it?

[Luke Burbank]

Oh, yeah. I love this song. This is Shawn Marshall, AKA cat power. Song is lived in bars. It's kind of a downbeat. A downbeat number, but a beautiful number at that. Are you a Sean? Are you a cat power listener? Because it seems like the kind of music that would mean a lot to you because it's lyrically pretty, interesting, and she has a beautiful voice and she's a lady singer.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Yeah. I do like Kat power. It's. But it's more that I don't own. I own, like a lot of her individual songs. I haven't ever actually purchased an album.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And. But I always like, when it comes up on my. On my shuffle. I'm always really like, oh, yeah, yeah.

[Luke Burbank]

Like, I think that our real are sort of hipster or whatever. You could say our snotty music fans would disagree with me. But my thing with her is that I rarely listen to an entire. I have pretty much all of her records. I rarely listen to one front to back because I feel like they can be kind of hit and miss at times. But if you pull out what I think are the ones that work, the songs she does that work, they're I just think kind of pretty amazing stuff. So that's cat power, the greatest. I think the album is. Oh, no, that's lived in bars. I think it might be off the album. The greatest.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Okay. This one comes from Neil. Can you help me? No one announced the name of the song that closed the show on Wednesday, September 21, and I really liked it. Can you tell me what it is? Okay, here is that.

[F]

It started out and everything was fine and swell. I was hushin'and she could tell. She's kinda punk but she likes the kinksay queen, Gossip girl and fashion magazines.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Did you ask her out?

[F]

I did last week. Went to a movie. She kissed my Cheek.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Did you see her again?

[F]

I did last night. Went to a party. She got quite.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Outside. Okay. Do you recognize that one?

[Luke Burbank]

No, I've never heard that song before. If I had to. If I had to guess, I would say, oh, man, it's. It sounds. I don't mean this is going to sound like a criticism. I actually think that song sounds cool. I like it, but it sounds like a combination of the Strokes and Smash Mouth.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

How do you think that it got on our show?

[Luke Burbank]

I didn't put it on. You must have done it.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, I've never heard that song in my life.

[Luke Burbank]

What are you talking about? I assume that that was a show when I was in Europe and you were just putting the shows together.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, it's a. No, it's a. Because we just played entire shows all the time you were gone. So it's whatever ended the show that day that we did it, you know, back last year.

[Luke Burbank]

No idea. Absolutely.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

That's a real mystery. So somebody out there needs to tell us what that is. Somebody knows what that is.

[Luke Burbank]

Yeah.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I went back and listened, and you didn't say. You just said, you know, thank you all for joining us. We'll see you tomorrow. And you just brought that song up and you didn't ever say what it was?

[Luke Burbank]

Geez, I feel like I've never heard that song before in my life. I thought it was. I thought that was you.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

No, it's not me.

[Luke Burbank]

I've never heard it. Someone. You know what? Play. Play it out of your, you know, your stereo with your ipod hooked up, and then hold up a different phone that has Shazam on it to the speaker and then let it identify that song.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I definitely heard the Smash Mouth in it for sure.

[Luke Burbank]

That's why I was trying to be delicate, because I was like, maybe this is. Like, maybe this is Jen's favorite band. Wait, I know we shouldn't do this right now because we're running behind, and I've got to run actually here. But let's try to do an experiment where you play that song again.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Okay?

[Luke Burbank]

And I'm gonna put my. I'm gonna put my phone with Shazam up to the headphones, okay. And see if it works.

[F]

It started out and everything was fine and swell. I was fashion, and she could tell. She's kind of punk, but she likes the Kinks and Queen, Gossip Girl, and fashion magazines.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Did you ask her out?

[F]

I did last week. Went to a movie. She kissed my cheek.

[Luke Burbank]

It's analyzing. Sorry, we can't tag this music.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

She has a line about she likes the goth, she likes the Kinks, Queen and Gossip Girl or something like that. Maybe we could find it with that lyric. God, that's a real mystery.

[Luke Burbank]

Shows you how little attention I pay to day in and day out on this program because I couldn't tell you. I don't know who that was. Is that not Julian Casablanca? Sounds a little like him. No, those lyrics are too. Are too sort of, I don't know, pop culture for him.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Okay, okay. And then finally, Jim asks, what is the song that Luke played? It was a funky blues track. It's been stuck in my head all weekend. He played it under the Cooking with Sean episode and I went back to look and people in the blog were asking as well. So I am not the only one. This is that.

[Luke Burbank]

Good luck to all. Oh, yeah.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

It is a funky blues track. They described it really well.

[Luke Burbank]

That's from Land of the Loops. Land of the Loops is a really cool band. I guess you can call them a band. They just loop different things together and create stuff. And I think that's the. This song. Goodbye.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

Land of the Loops. Goodbye. There you go. Jem and everybody else, prepare for the unknown.

[Luke Burbank]

And by the way, the record is called Bundle of Joy. Now you know where this came from, though. We were considering ending the show with this. Remember when we were auditioning new because it's called Goodbye. Yeah. And because it just. And for some reason we decided against it. But I've still taken the opportunity to kind of weave it into the show when and where I can. All right.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And then to all the people who keep asking us if we would please explain what the opening audio is every day, I would just say to you, it's most likely workaholics at this point.

[Luke Burbank]

I'm sorry, I know. I thought of that. I thought of that on after Monday's show. I was like. Because you, you. I think you have more of a. Jen, I think you. You. You're. You strive for more originality than I do. I'm clear. When I'm obsessed with something, I just. I just like, follow my bliss.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I do feel bad about it, though, because I think people, like hear stuff at the beginning of the show and we always play that opening audio and they think, oh, that was funny. I wonder what it was from. And then we never say. So at this point I would assume it's like, Today it was Dr. Steve Bruhl and tomorrow it'll probably be Workaholic.

[Luke Burbank]

Someday. Someday we will have a team of interns and a bitchin website and it'll have all of the music we play listed every day, and it'll have all of the audio references and it'll be great. But someday is Someday is not going to probably be for another thousand episodes after this, so. So in the meantime, we'll just have to kind of try to answer those questions as they come on in. All right, let's go out with another. Since we're on Land of the Loops, let's go out with another Land of the Loops song. This is probably their most well known song. It's called Multifamily Garage Sale Tomorrow. Let's see, it's Thursday. Are we doing the show again tomorrow?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

I think we will.

[Luke Burbank]

Okay, great. Well, thanks everybody for listening. Thanks again, Jen, for covering for me yesterday. And thanks to all of you guys for being patient. We will be back here tomorrow at 1:00 with more imaginary radio for you. Until then, no mountain too tall.

[Jen Flash Andrews]

And good luck to all.

[Luke Burbank]

That's gonna be nice. Don't leave me. Where are we anyway?

[Jen Flash Andrews]

That's gonna be nice.