0:00

Look, daddy, I like you. Like?

0:02

I like you! Yeah, it's a thing.

0:04

I like you too. Daddy! There's

0:07

a lot of things about me you don't know anything

0:09

about, daddy. Things you wouldn't

0:11

understand. Things you couldn't

0:13

understand. Things you

0:15

shouldn't understand. I

0:19

don't understand. T-T-T-T-T-T-T-L.

0:27

Guess what day it is? It's

0:29

Friday. Friday. Gotta

0:32

get down on Friday. Everybody's looking

0:34

forward to the weekend. There

0:37

are two types of people in this world. Those who like

0:39

Neil Diamond and those who don't.

0:42

My ex-wife loves him. You

0:44

know something? That was pretty funny. You should think

0:46

about being a comedian. My friend is a blackjack

0:48

dealer. And on his forearm he has a

0:51

tattoo of an ace and a jack. You

0:53

see, I'm a blackjack player. On my forearm, I'm

0:55

gonna get a tattoo of a blackjack. I'm

0:58

gonna get a tattoo of a ten and

1:00

a two. And

1:03

then maybe later a king. You know

1:05

someone might describe a situation

1:07

that's unpleasant or confining as

1:09

being like a prison. This

1:12

is what they're referring to. Alright,

1:16

hello, good morning and welcome everyone

1:18

to a Friday edition of T-B-T-L. The

1:21

show that just might be too beautiful to

1:23

live. My

1:25

name is Luke Burbank. I am your

1:28

host. Definitely. Coming to you

1:30

from the offices of Walsh,

1:32

Walsh and Doormat. Bring it back home,

1:34

baby. Bring it back home. Right

1:37

here in the beautiful Seattle area

1:39

where it is actually looking like

1:41

a pretty nice day. Of what

1:43

I can see, of what I was able to take in

1:45

on the Lyft ride over here. We

1:48

have a fun Friday edition of the program coming your

1:50

way. This is episode 4,173 in a collector's series. Let

1:56

the fun begin. I'm in a good

1:58

mood this morning, but boy was I a... ever

2:01

fuming as

2:03

our friends across the water like to say.

2:05

I was fuming last

2:07

night when the Seattle Mariners were kicking

2:10

off the regular season and I

2:12

went to turn it on on

2:15

my television and I

2:17

could not seem to get it going. Television

2:19

is no friend of mine. And

2:22

it was because apparently I wasn't

2:24

yet paying the Comcast Corporation thousands

2:27

and thousands of dollars to

2:30

get this baseball footage. And

2:33

so I said, all right, well, you've got me. I'll

2:35

pay the thousands and thousands of dollars and then they

2:38

wouldn't accept my thousands and thousands of dollars. So

2:41

I'm going to really

2:43

let them have it here today on the program. Speaking

2:47

of really letting them have it or maybe

2:49

not letting them have it, Costco is

2:51

going to start IDing in their food court.

2:53

What's courageous about eating a hot dog? We're

2:56

talk about that mostly a show prep for

2:58

me before I go over to KUOW later

3:01

today. And then and I

3:03

can't mention this enough on to

3:05

Livewire at Town Hall tonight. Come

3:08

on by if you're curious. It's

3:10

going to be a fun show. This guy always

3:12

makes it a fun show. He's the longest running

3:14

cobro of the program, maybe best known for his

3:17

depictions of the tall ships.

3:19

He really came through in the pinch

3:21

for me last night due to his

3:23

extra legal baseball viewing techniques. Oh, my

3:25

God. He's Andrew Walsh and he's joining

3:27

me right now. Good morning, my friend. Good morning. You might

3:29

not have noticed it and it might have been lost in

3:31

the music, but I just had my

3:33

own hot mic moment. Usually you

3:35

are not here in studio with me. My mic

3:37

is muted until the very last moment. But a

3:40

second ago, you said this guy's always a lot

3:42

of fun. And I went, that's

3:44

how I realized my mic was already open.

3:46

I don't know if anybody will hear that

3:48

or not, but you can feel free. You've

3:51

got to eat that microphone. Don't rewind to

3:53

find out and you can hear that. I

3:55

would finish listening to this show all the

3:57

way through, then go back and re-download and

3:59

re-listen. Clear your cash. Clear your

4:01

cash. Makes you go to your cookies.

4:03

Go to a different cell phone. Stand

4:05

beneath a different cell phone. Borrow, beg,

4:08

borrow, or steal any cell

4:10

phone from anyone in your life or out of your life.

4:13

And go ahead and subscribe them to

4:15

the program, please. I have a growth

4:18

opportunity for us, maybe. I'm glad that

4:20

opportunity came at the

4:22

end of that sentence. I have a growth. I just

4:24

thought you were trying to tell me something. I have

4:26

a growth. And since you're here, I was wondering if

4:29

you could maybe take a look at it, Atlanta, if

4:31

need be. But

4:34

this is a little negative. And maybe you won't

4:36

like it. But I'll take a download, however we

4:38

get a download, or a stream, or whatever they

4:40

call it. I'm good at business,

4:42

podcasting. What

4:45

about TBTL as a mandated?

4:48

All right, punishment is a strong word. But let's say you

4:50

have some kids in the house, kids who are old enough

4:52

to listen to the content that we're putting out there, which

4:54

I think is most kids probably

4:57

have some interest in colonoscopies and

4:59

when we're going to get it.

5:01

And also getting into the scheduling

5:03

of colonoscopies. What about

5:05

discussing riverside? And riverside

5:08

and other exciting internet

5:10

apps like that. So anyway, I'm just sort

5:12

of thinking like if you have a kid

5:15

and you need to kind of steer them

5:17

in the right direction, maybe their grades aren't

5:19

so you need to kind of ground them.

5:21

You need to scare them straight. Really? Maybe

5:23

you just make them listen to TBTL. We

5:25

get the downloads. They get a couple of

5:28

father figures in their life in addition to

5:30

whoever else is already in their life. They

5:32

also, they

5:34

get a view into just how bad it

5:36

can get for them if they don't figure

5:38

their life out. They're straight now. Now I

5:40

get it. Yeah, it's like. You

5:43

know, I thought I knew it all when I was your

5:45

age. I thought I'd never be podcasting in a basement. That's

5:48

right. The other day, I

5:50

Gotta ask you, the other day when we were talking

5:53

about lighting, you were like, I don't wanna look like

5:55

I'm podcasting in a basement. Were You directly saying that

5:57

to insult me? Or Did you just say that while

5:59

I was. Talk with you from a from

6:01

a basement studio. You know I think

6:03

I meant that if original I have

6:05

no memory of saying that I I

6:08

i commonly kind of work out to

6:10

envision as as a sub and and

6:12

I I think I'd I meant that

6:14

more of a suspect that it's edited

6:16

Vn are overpaid mineral the knock on

6:18

podcasting with this is a thing Andrew

6:20

and. With you.

6:22

Know we like to make a joke that this

6:24

is you know, obviously a highly visual medium alert

6:26

Getting more visual by the A because we're putting

6:28

his or videos out if you'd like to see

6:30

me. Dancing.

6:33

And trying to kick my leg up. Ah

6:35

into the view of the camera from yesterday.

6:37

So you can go to the A T

6:39

Be to Instagram page Yep and subscribe Like

6:41

and subscribe. But. And make

6:43

your kids dude as punishments exact as

6:45

best as. but I'm but yeah now

6:47

we're Not Only are we are we

6:49

doing these are visible. Were talking about

6:51

things that are visual more like. What?

6:54

Are light set up is what are

6:56

camera setup how we like our backgrounds

6:58

and I will just say this I

7:00

actually yes we are on the lower

7:02

floor of your beautiful home you genevieve

7:04

share but it's a great the backdrop

7:06

I love you have this would paneling

7:08

in here the I think is is

7:10

visually very interesting on the other end

7:12

of the zoom or whatever we're talking

7:14

on on would yeah Lake Riverside sorry

7:16

yeah there's nothing. And

7:19

with this there's there's nothing that seals

7:21

in a bad way. Base mini about

7:23

when you're broadcasting. From here. And in fact,

7:25

I'm a bit jealous because it's what you

7:27

have is essentially an accent wall. Behind

7:29

you Unity New like it's somewhat. you don't know

7:32

until you come in the room, but it's all

7:34

facts. that was an accent Roads actually more of

7:36

us saw nothing but yeah, yeah, I led to

7:38

another or I'm a fan of of of like

7:40

as in it's not. You don't have paneling in

7:42

here because which you have his tongue and groove.

7:45

Would. Like this is the real deal.

7:47

This. is the relevant a conversation of our

7:49

time it's like it's not just it's not

7:52

wood paneling where you buy these seats of

7:54

something that looks like it's different pieces of

7:56

would sit together you've got the real deal

7:58

in her you've got tongue and groove If

8:00

we were to take this stuff apart, it

8:02

fits together in a way

8:04

that took somebody some time to piece together. You've

8:06

got the high quality version of this going on.

8:10

And I, truthfully, am very much a fan of the look

8:12

of it, of the vibe. Well, thank you. I kind of

8:14

put you on the spot to say that I was going

8:16

to... My backdrop, which people can see

8:18

if they go to the Instagram page,

8:20

needs some help. I'm in this... Leisure says

8:22

TBTL behind you. I feel like I need

8:25

something a little bit over here that signifies

8:27

that I'm doing a podcast. And

8:30

I have been so distracted and

8:32

bogged down with other parts of

8:34

my little remodeling project that the

8:36

cobbler's children go without shoes. And

8:39

the very place that is most filmed in

8:41

my life now, which would be the Madronahill

8:43

studio in the area right behind me, is

8:46

literally like you can see in the video

8:48

on Instagram when I'm leg upping, when I'm

8:50

kicking my foot up in the air, that

8:52

I just have a couple of different things

8:54

propped up on cardboard boxes. That is eventually

8:56

going to be hopefully some

8:58

sort of a bookshelf situation,

9:00

very carefully curated. They used to

9:02

call it in the days of the pandemic,

9:05

a respectability bookshelf. Oh, really? Because, you know,

9:07

everybody... I zoom, everybody... Yeah, everybody in meetings

9:09

and particularly on TV networks

9:11

like MSNBC, suddenly everyone was at

9:13

home. It's wild to think of

9:15

what a radical shift and what

9:18

a long-term shift that created

9:20

in television news' idea

9:22

of where a person needs to

9:24

be when punditing. Yeah.

9:27

Because it was like... An immediate and fundamental

9:29

shift, right? An immediate, fundamental, and now permanent

9:32

shift because it turns out it's sort of

9:34

better for everyone. It used to be the

9:36

case. I was on our buddy Chris Hayes'

9:38

show when it was on Saturdays

9:41

many, many years ago. I don't think...

9:44

It was called... It wasn't called all in and now I'm

9:46

blanking on what it was called back then. It was called

9:48

Attaboy. Attaboy! Attaboy!

9:51

I'm gonna look it up. It's driving me... I

9:53

like the way that the names sort of complimented each other. They felt

9:55

like they were of the same universe. Yes. But

9:58

I Remember... First Of all, I was

10:00

extremely... remotely extremely flattered to be invited

10:02

on the show. I have a ceiling.

10:04

Pesca might have been on that one

10:06

with me or he'd been another. You.

10:08

Know episodes of the show. It was such a

10:10

cool show to by the way. He.

10:13

Was like. It was really

10:15

a hang that it was just like

10:17

those a couple of hours on a

10:19

Saturday. The conversation was was boobs felt

10:21

very sort of casual in a way

10:23

but up hopefully somewhat informative. Have

10:25

you figured out what it was The I was

10:28

up it was up with Chris hey I'm it

10:30

was okay with Chris Hayes and so I remember.

10:33

Again being. Let's. Be honest, I

10:35

was only invite on the show because our friend

10:37

Chris Hayes is a fan of Tbtf. but I'll

10:39

take it easy cities like maybe if I get

10:41

loot and the show some they are getting out

10:43

Andrews right like that precisely. So I was like.

10:46

I was super stoked. Ah, I think I was

10:48

already in New York? I don't I don't think

10:50

it was the case that I had like they

10:52

didn't travel me to New York do this. But.

10:54

I. Remember. Them

10:57

sending a car. To. The

10:59

hotel that I was staying in in Manhattan which

11:01

I wanna say was a half a mile away.

11:04

And he he and a guy came and picked

11:06

me up. I felt like Bruce Willis. In.

11:08

Die Hard. Getting picked up by Argyle, the limo

11:11

driver who turns out to actually be very critical

11:13

to the plot. How did that work out for

11:15

him? By though the Brussels character pretty good re.

11:17

honestly he it repaired his marriage just if he

11:19

could have. I did as Garnier by having a

11:22

terrorist attack that. Slackers,

11:24

it's are surviving a terrorist event.

11:26

Not Khatami Plaza. Sure, the idea

11:28

that it would forge a lifelong

11:30

relationship with Reginald's L. Johnson? Yeah,

11:32

and repair your marriage? Yeah, I.

11:34

You could have a worse Saturday

11:36

of when? when? Yes. So ah,

11:38

I. Remember being login? All of this

11:40

felt so so plus to me Because

11:43

here is and he's a black S

11:45

U V dispatched by the National Broadcasting

11:47

Corporation to come pick me up. It's

11:50

waiting outside my hotel. I get in

11:52

it and then it drives. My.

11:54

Memory is literally around the block. Yeah, like, I

11:56

don't think I was very far from. From.

11:59

the from 30 Rock but it picks me

12:01

up, drives me to and then it parks and

12:03

then I get out and I go do I

12:05

call someone after this? He goes I'll just be

12:07

waiting here and I look and there's a fleet

12:10

of these vehicles. Every person who's going to be

12:12

participating in the television being made at 30 Rock

12:14

that day has been brought there by one of

12:16

these guys and they're just going to wait and

12:18

then they're going to take you home and that

12:21

was at the network level kind of

12:23

the I think sort of the industry standard like

12:25

if we're going to have a person on this

12:27

thing they need to physically be here

12:30

or in a television studio in

12:32

another place. But the

12:35

idea of being in your own home

12:37

with AirPods in is that

12:39

is a non-starter and then all

12:41

of a sudden the pandemic and we had to and

12:43

I think that all the TV networks realize God

12:46

we're saving money on SUVs. And there's I

12:48

think you know if you're a regular contributor

12:50

I'm sure that you are sent a lot

12:52

of equipment by the network for lighting and

12:54

audio and all of that stuff. Now

12:56

I have a question for you. I have

12:59

one and a half answers to

13:01

this question myself. Who's

13:04

like kind of Zoom setup do you

13:06

think of first or at home punditry

13:08

setup do you think of first? I'll

13:10

tell you it's got a good one

13:12

Claire McCaskill. Oh oh yeah? One

13:15

time Missouri senator Claire McCaskill's got a nice

13:17

one. What I like about Claire McCaskill's setup

13:19

is it's not overly

13:22

curated but it's not under

13:25

curated. Is it a kind of a

13:27

study kind of? It seems like. I

13:29

honestly think Claire McCaskill may have

13:31

two places that she lives. I believe I would have

13:33

guessed that she has a place in in Missouri. God

13:35

I hope she's from Missouri. I hope I'm not misremembering

13:37

this. She's

13:40

a senator. I remember her. I

13:44

feel like what I like Claire McCaskill probably has a

13:46

place in DC and probably has a place back in

13:48

her home state. In both

13:51

locations it's again it's a

13:54

she's in a nice room but it's not like

13:57

it's not that she has Missouri. Missouri

14:00

whoo I'm

14:03

gonna try to roll that energy right into KUOW today

14:05

as I go I am

14:07

going thinking it's called Boeing correct

14:09

me if I'm wrong it's called

14:11

a Boeing jet

14:15

but anyway I like Claire McCaskill scene because

14:17

it's she doesn't seem to be overly fussy

14:19

about it but she's in she's in nice

14:21

spaces but she's not in a room that

14:23

you can tell she fretted over unduly it's

14:25

just it's like if you were to go

14:27

to someone's house and you would be hanging

14:30

out at their house it'd be nice to

14:32

be but a nice house a nice airy

14:34

house but not so fancy that you're afraid

14:36

to touch anything I'm looking at some of

14:38

these backdrops here sometimes she's in her living

14:41

room yes is very nice sometimes she's

14:43

in her kitchen with a little coffee pot behind her but it

14:45

doesn't look cluttered no I like that you

14:47

know who else I really like and

14:49

I'm not gonna be able to call his name

14:51

up but he is he's a lawyer who

14:53

I think his his area

14:55

of expertise in his focus is on

14:58

fighting for voting access and voting rights and

15:01

he's on Chris's show another

15:03

MSNBC shows a fair amount because

15:05

he's constantly oh he wants

15:07

people to be able to vote huh must be a

15:09

liberal he's got the

15:12

woke mind virus where he believes that

15:14

Americans should be able to vote and

15:16

what I love about this

15:18

guy is he has a very serious job

15:20

he's a very smart lawyer he's doing very

15:22

important work but he's obsessed

15:25

with his dog and

15:27

he constantly works in

15:30

photos of his dog in the backdrop

15:34

I want to say his first name might be Andrew which

15:37

is what if that is name it's just coincidence

15:39

I'm not making an Andrew Walsh joke here but

15:41

like what I love is he's talking about the

15:44

very good one he's talking about the very future

15:46

of democracy but he's also

15:48

you can tell that he wanted to make sure

15:50

that there was a funny photo or a loving

15:52

photo of his dog in

15:55

the background and they move around too

15:57

and it's like his whole backdrop is

15:59

essentially a shrine to his dog

16:01

that I'm pretty sure is alive. This

16:06

isn't just like Rest in Power

16:08

Puddles. That's the name of one

16:10

of the children who calls into our show. I'll try to pick a

16:12

better example. Not

16:15

a bad name for your dog either. I

16:20

do think about these things, Andrew, when

16:22

I think about creating my special backdrop at

16:24

the Madrona Hill Studio. I

16:27

want it to seem put together

16:30

but also not like I just

16:32

ordered it out of a catalog and set it up. I

16:35

don't want it to be soulless. I want it to be. And

16:37

that's again what I like about down here. I will tell you

16:39

this though. I'm surprised

16:41

that my friend Andrew, Mr.

16:45

It Is What It Is, has not won but

16:48

two ring lights. I do. You're

16:51

a two ring light man. I am. I'm a

16:53

little cheap guy that I got at the Goodwill that

16:55

I was using just for Zoom stuff. But

16:57

when you and I started using Riverside, I got a slightly

17:00

better camera. How do you like my goose neck stand by

17:02

the way? I love my goose neck stand. It keeps it

17:04

off of the desk. I'm

17:07

very impressed with your setup in here, honestly. I

17:09

got a makeup crew outside. Yeah,

17:12

glam squad. They're hiding behind a human

17:14

door. I set you

17:16

up for that question because I wanted to answer it myself. The

17:18

two that I think of. The one

17:21

that I think of first, and you're not going to

17:23

be surprised by this answer at all, but I like

17:25

that it went from really

17:27

quick Zoom background but then it sort

17:29

of expanded out as you mentioned as

17:31

we all, or as these successful commentators

17:34

started to kind of build out there.

17:36

What did you call the shelf behind

17:38

them again? Well, it's been called a

17:40

respectability shelf. There was a whole website

17:42

called Room Raiders in the

17:45

pandemic that was just, and

17:47

it was a really funny blog because they were

17:49

just going through and kind of raiding with no

17:51

real metric which background they liked the most but

17:53

in a really funny way. But the first one

17:55

I think of is Mina Kine. I was going

17:57

to say. You knew it was going to be

17:59

Mina Kine. Because originally here do you

18:01

know my that's okay. You can bring the

18:03

bell for me and Nina then you should

18:05

have it Because a

18:08

segment again like I think when she when

18:10

she started I'm

18:12

on I'm on Kow's

18:14

podcast Seattle now with Rachel Bell today by

18:16

the way if you want to check out

18:18

the podcast you and I are just owning

18:20

the Kow space and we are flooding the

18:22

zone over there actually no joke probably the

18:24

most fun I mean I have fun on

18:26

that show usually but it was it

18:28

was the whole thing was like a Just

18:30

a laugh fest It was like most of the stories

18:33

with a little bit of City Council talk but most

18:35

of it was like Mariners food

18:37

hellcat. I'm a little hurt hot dog

18:39

Kow didn't go for my health at

18:41

my hellcat suggestion for today's program Maybe

18:44

because maybe they because I know that

18:46

they were covering it anyway point is

18:49

I didn't mean at times has the pavement

18:51

Why we Zowie album behind her and I

18:53

just sort of remember why I go from

18:56

I don't know that zoom set up to

18:58

more professional Over time but why we Zowie

19:00

has maintained a place of honor of it always

19:02

in the backdrop and a little tributes to her

19:04

dog Lenny Which is very

19:06

nice and now I think she's actually I

19:08

follow her on Instagram I think they commissioned

19:10

somebody to make some art behind her well that is kind

19:12

of related the other one I think of and this is

19:15

a little bit of negging I didn't know this fella's name

19:17

But I just looked it up the fact that I was

19:19

able to look this up just goes to show that this

19:21

is not an accident John Hillman

19:23

is that how you say? Heilman

19:26

political reporter. He's something

19:28

on MSNBC some sort

19:30

of commentator because I used to see

19:32

him a lot yeah, and what I

19:34

always stood out to me was that

19:36

he would always Prominently have his iPad

19:38

in front of him. Yeah, any of the

19:40

Wu Tang. Yes, and I am a little

19:42

I'm always like little joke There's something so

19:45

and like I am a white

19:47

guy that likes the Wu Tang But I feel like

19:49

I'm self-aware enough about it to hopefully not talk about

19:51

it too much although I did quote a lyric to

19:53

you awkwardly the other day From

19:56

liquid swords, but like aside from that it's

19:58

just like there's something about I always found it so

20:01

just kind of like this this guy

20:03

who's probably exactly my age white guy

20:05

But flashing his Wu Tang when everything

20:07

get on TV just seemed a little

20:09

like I don't know I don't

20:12

know a brand that I wouldn't lean into well

20:14

a couple of things on that It's a

20:16

little it does feel by the way the name

20:18

of the attorney in question is Mark Elias So

20:22

that Andrew joke was not only not funny. It was not

20:24

even Even make sense

20:26

so you were the guy I was talking about no the

20:30

guy who is obsessed with putting his dog

20:32

in the background of the mark Elias and

20:35

and His dog. I

20:37

just want to figure out what the name of the dog

20:39

is even because we'll give that dog a shout-out It

20:42

looks like it might be a Portuguese water

20:44

dog. Oh, I which we love them That's

20:46

like I think the Obamas did a lot

20:48

for that brand Because

20:51

Bo their dog was a Portuguese water dog

20:55

But I will say this I Was

20:57

last night Becca popped by my place because we

20:59

were gonna come up here to Seattle together And

21:03

I have this book this photo book that

21:06

is Somebody put together

21:08

that Scott just kind of pictures from my life

21:10

and it was a very nice gesture It

21:12

was like, you know, baby pictures and kind of just

21:14

different It's different phases of my life

21:17

and bound like a book Yeah bound like a book

21:19

with a cover with a picture of me on the

21:21

cover where I'm I'm This

21:23

is actually a pretty epic photo. I'm

21:25

a little baby. I'm probably like one. I'm kind

21:27

of all covered in dirt We're camping or something.

21:30

I just have a cob of corn in my

21:32

mouth and I'm just wearing a dirty yellow t-shirt

21:34

that says praise the Lord It's

21:37

a very epic photo. Are you holding the

21:39

corn? You're your mouth is big enough to

21:42

like I must be holding the edge of

21:44

the corn, but I'm biting the corn Oh,

21:46

I am. I am very engaged in that

21:48

process but but

21:52

one of the photos in there was from

21:54

when I Weaseled my way into

21:56

the pages of the New York Times Which

21:59

was when? And the Bryant Clark Project

22:02

was being launched. The New York

22:04

Times came and wrote an article about us because

22:06

the log line was NPR wants

22:09

to reach a newer audience. And

22:12

I haven't heard much. It

22:15

did save my marriage. It did

22:18

end one marriage and start another engagement.

22:20

Come to the East Coast, they said.

22:22

Talk to younger listeners, they said. Interview

22:24

cigarettes, they said. And

22:28

but I spent

22:31

an un, sort of

22:34

a, I spent too much time thinking

22:36

about what do I want my outfit to

22:38

say and what I want my outfit

22:41

to say was I'm on NPR but I'm cool

22:43

and what did I go with? A Biggie Smalls

22:45

t-shirt. Oh yes, we have

22:47

talked about this before. I know the

22:49

shirt and it is a cool shirt.

22:51

It is a cool shirt but it

22:53

was try hard in the way that

22:55

probably John Heilerman's, it's a little try

22:57

hard with the Wu-Tang baby. They rocked the

22:59

world on the tablet. But

23:02

I say that to say that I've

23:04

fallen prey to the exact same thing which is

23:06

a way of trying to signal a certain amount

23:08

of quote unquote

23:11

getting it or not being in whatever predictable

23:13

lane you think someone who hosts a public

23:15

radio show might be in. But

23:17

it was a little bit of, you know, at least

23:19

it's subtle. Here's what I will say. If

23:21

you didn't know what that t-shirt was, you

23:23

might not immediately recognize it. Although

23:27

I guess sort of the same with the Wu-Tang symbol I guess.

23:29

I mean honestly if you didn't know that's Wu-Tang

23:31

you think he's working with some sort of shadowy

23:33

cabal. Like, that's sort of an MSNBC. I

23:37

already assumed that. John

23:40

Heilerman and the Illuminati. But

23:43

it was just funny because literally last night Becca

23:45

was flipping through this book and I go yeah

23:47

that was a picture of me in the New

23:50

York Times where I decided I was going to

23:52

really be a cool guy by wearing my Biggie

23:54

Smalls t-shirt. Well I mean this is where, I

23:56

mean why am I throwing

23:58

these stones. The fact

24:01

that you just told that story reminds me that

24:04

I've gone after this John Hale min guy on

24:06

the show before. I knew I have an inside

24:08

joke with a friend where I would send her

24:10

a screen cap of it whenever I saw it.

24:14

Who am I to say that I'm so above it? I

24:19

do like the Wu-Tang Clan. I like Biggie

24:21

Smull. They rock the world. I

24:23

believe that they rock the world. Maybe

24:26

that's why it stood out to me so much. The

24:29

things that make me cringe about other

24:31

people probably are things that make me cringe

24:33

about myself. And so that's probably it. You

24:36

promise me. By the way, that's

24:39

a real making you dig your own grave

24:41

move. I played the drop and it was

24:43

too low and you're only doing it for

24:45

you. What am I doing? Your

24:49

fidelity concerns Trump. You're

24:52

hating that drop concern. And so you

24:54

think. Just muscle memory. You watched me.

24:56

This audio drop that I hate

24:59

deeply is not loud enough. Let

25:01

me make sure that it's audible to

25:03

everyone even though I hate this with

25:05

the fire of a thousand sun. Luke,

25:07

we have to talk about what happened

25:09

to you in America last night regarding

25:11

trying to watch baseball in the Pacific

25:13

Northwest. I'm also really concerned about your

25:15

time. You're supposed to be at KUOW

25:18

in about an hour. Yeah,

25:20

but the bigger issue is I've read none

25:22

of the articles. Right, that too. Which

25:24

we could even get into. I

25:27

rarely have stress dreams anymore

25:29

because I don't dream. Because

25:31

I'm dead inside. But I

25:34

actually had a little stress

25:36

dream about this very thing which

25:38

is going to be on KUOW a little bit

25:40

later today. And the stress dream was I only

25:44

realized at the beginning of the as the

25:46

music was playing and Bill Radke, the host,

25:48

was talking. That was the moment

25:50

at which I realized I hadn't read any of the articles.

25:52

You had a stress dream about this. Yeah, like two nights

25:54

ago. And in my dream, I was

25:57

pretty chill. And this is what... This

26:00

and this is of course how stress dreams always

26:02

work for me. It's Something

26:04

is about to happen that I was unprepared

26:06

for and my fixation becomes Getting

26:08

some kind of information or tool that will help me fix

26:11

the problem or at least feel a little better about it

26:13

Like a pencil, right? Did you have a pencil one? For

26:16

me, it's I'm in a room and I realize

26:18

oh there's stand-up comedy going on and I am supposed

26:20

to I Didn't know

26:22

I'm the next person to go up and my fixation

26:24

becomes if I can get a pencil and paper I

26:27

can write down some ideas so when I go up

26:29

there at least I'll have some sense and and and

26:31

the dream that I had about this this KUW thing

26:33

was I realize as The

26:37

show is beginning that I'm on the show and

26:39

that I haven't read any of the articles But

26:42

we're going into the newscast So

26:44

that's five minutes and if I

26:46

can get and when I used to be on Ross and Burbank

26:48

That would be more prep time than I would have taken that

26:51

Like if I could have got you and

26:54

in the dream I was just like I

26:56

gotta get a list of these articles There's

26:58

simply two good I was like I gotta

27:00

get the I need the links. I was

27:02

like Oscar Schindler the links are life I

27:05

think those are on the same level sure I

27:07

was like gotta get these links because if

27:10

I can get these links to the articles

27:12

then I can speed

27:14

read these fight art five articles during the next five

27:16

minutes, and then I'll just I'll figure it out from there

27:18

but I just need enough to go on and I

27:21

didn't get enough to go on and then

27:23

I I guess this is this is ironic

27:25

Cole Lot of people think

27:27

it's ironical that we work at a travel agency, but we've never

27:29

been outside of Missouri Fred

27:32

Willard in waiting for government because

27:34

Ron and Sheila Albertson run a

27:37

travel agency But they've never

27:39

been outside of I think even like yeah,

27:41

Missouri They

27:44

also cut to I love her backdrops. They

27:47

also have they have a great scene

27:50

where Fred

27:52

Willard's character is talking to somebody over the

27:54

phone Like a somebody who

27:56

they've booked on a vacation, and he goes no

27:58

don't worry about Listen, Montezuma's

28:01

Revenge is just good old-fashioned

28:04

diarrhea. I

28:06

don't remember that line at all. Is

28:08

there a chance that that's an extra

28:10

scene? I don't think so. I could

28:12

be wrong. I don't have that movie

28:14

memorized. I mean, I just, I would

28:16

love to know the other ten things

28:18

Fred Willard said into that phone.

28:21

Yeah, just so they're rolling through lines. That

28:24

line has just bounced around in my head for 30 years now

28:26

or something, 25 years. But

28:29

anyway, all of that is to say, I

28:32

actually only got the articles

28:34

this morning and it was basically when I

28:36

was on my way here. And

28:38

I have a whole- The producers, we should say,

28:40

the producers will send you a list of articles.

28:43

And in my experience, and I mean, to their

28:45

credit, the producers at KUOW are always very diligent

28:48

in sending out a list of stories

28:50

and then saying, please, get us your

28:52

thoughts on these the night

28:54

before or at least the morning of. Because

28:56

we're really going to construct the show around

28:59

your feedback on these topics. And so I

29:01

always feel like they're always like really, really

29:03

good about that. Ironically, I'm sorry. A

29:05

lot of people think it's ironical. That

29:09

I never prep for these shows. And then one day

29:11

that I'm like, the one

29:13

day that I'm like, hey, I would really like to know this

29:15

stuff. And in fact, last night I was thinking, maybe

29:18

they've just gotten way more chill. Maybe

29:20

they just, and so then this morning I got

29:23

up and now I was starting to feel a

29:25

low level of like, I want to know what

29:27

articles were. I will try to

29:29

read the entire Seattle Times, which by the way, they

29:31

have the paper, the newsprint

29:33

version at the hotel I'm staying

29:35

at. I'm walking

29:37

around that hotel. I got a coffee in one

29:39

hand. You got it folded under there. I got

29:42

the newspaper. It's Sakura Con. There's

29:44

people cosplaying everywhere around me in the

29:47

hotel. That's a big, I don't

29:49

want to mis-describe it, but that's a big con

29:51

that gets together where there's a lot of cosplay.

29:53

I just got this, I love that newspaper.

29:56

It was, it Time traveled me in some

29:58

way. just to be fair., That we holding a walk

30:00

in the hotel room as like. Some.

30:03

Open the newspapers or drinking my coffee was like

30:05

everything was right in the rough. but I was

30:07

like I do need more specificity What are the

30:09

article they need to be filled in on? So

30:12

I emailed them. And. He basically said

30:14

heads when I'm excited, miss this and the basically

30:16

there is one. Oh yeah, this was in the

30:18

draft folder. This. Was on. its I have,

30:20

I do it. Never got that. I was in the

30:22

draft and if I hadn't of like raise the alarm

30:24

I mean maybe to this very moment we still wouldn't

30:26

have even known. but I mean of more the yeah

30:28

well I don't wanna put them on front street but

30:30

I'm also kinda surprised. Here's. What

30:33

I think maybe slightly ironical. or at least maybe

30:35

the people who don't know you are no more

30:37

of a better actor of youths because I've worked

30:39

with you for a long time. I think that

30:42

you have an ability to make it seem like

30:44

you don't do proper whatever that sort of the

30:46

brand to be like. Very chill. but you do

30:48

do prep and whether we're doing this show or

30:50

a live show or whatever it is sir. The.

30:53

So but knowing that your hey, I'm the

30:55

best you know you, you call yourself a

30:57

bad idea, like whatever, your feet up on

30:59

the death when you're batting man and then

31:01

eventually that about her and the bad memory.

31:03

And plus flyers. The Bad man. Why about

31:05

three to have so much? Why it? I

31:08

just like I just like see refrain myself

31:10

as a boy is so factually incorrect at

31:12

this point. But what can I be that's

31:14

not that I Love and the Bad Boy

31:16

Public Radio. I. Have

31:18

is that antimatter radio com that

31:20

hum follow me how to put

31:23

admire politics after it puts is

31:25

a member support in a basket.

31:31

Of let me put my donation in

31:33

you. Okay that's got weird yeah for

31:36

the sit a public radio in the

31:38

estate planning process of I do think

31:40

that's I do think it's ironic that

31:42

all making that yoga discuss the guy

31:45

Branum neither love it but advocates that

31:47

you the. One out of it as

31:49

just one producer to other guy and

31:51

a hyena. Jose, you're the one who

31:53

can like guys. Are we gonna do?

31:55

I have exactly that's not usually the

31:57

role that I play. I think everyone

31:59

else. Is being much more chill about it

32:01

than than I was being? So are you

32:04

on what you might say? I don't mind

32:06

saying I, it's it it. you. Know.

32:08

It's my old friend in front of the

32:11

show David bows oh yeah oh I from

32:13

various radio programs he was even told a

32:15

very scary Halloween story that was us and

32:18

of go to press for many halloween he

32:20

is gonna be on and then was I

32:22

can sort of think tanks now yeah would

32:24

have sent a he was doing that before

32:27

he got into radio and now I think

32:29

is doing it. As. He does

32:31

less radio but I'm I'm excited about that

32:33

because I love Dave and we He and

32:36

I don't see eye to eye on politics

32:38

but I as a person really really liked

32:40

him. And then somebody named Lox Von who

32:42

runs a satirical website called The Needle in.

32:45

Which. Is actually really funny? Yeah I

32:47

went and checked it out and outs. Be

32:49

honest I would say this to Lex as

32:52

well. There. You

32:54

know, in in the. With. The popularity of

32:56

the Onion and things like that. there have

32:58

been many satire and satirical website started and

33:00

a lot of them have not really hit

33:02

ones that I have really enjoyed. Reductase: I

33:05

like the Law yes love that needling and

33:07

doctors and with this needling one I was

33:09

like let me go check this out, it's

33:11

really good. Yes it's funny. I was Lawley

33:13

so that it hasn't been on your radar

33:15

be I had never heard of it before

33:17

like two days ago and I went to

33:20

check it out and I was very very

33:22

impressed. I thought it was really funny. I

33:24

they have a sports. Section that was making

33:26

me laugh out loud mean the whole

33:28

thing was really really well done. A

33:30

very funny. I don't go there as

33:33

a destination I like. sort of. You

33:35

know it'll blood of needling. Things get

33:37

shared and research and so I see

33:39

them. But here's what I really think

33:41

is interesting about this. Only for us

33:43

though. This is so not the interesting

33:45

part of the story here. Buddy L

33:47

A kid gather round, gather round the

33:49

phonograph. A.you wish you would have paid

33:52

better. Sensitive School The I got a

33:54

lesson exists hours straight. I. hear

33:56

about audible for it's to face yet or a

33:58

that though that I

34:00

heard Lex on the Week in Review maybe, I

34:02

don't know, a couple of months ago or something,

34:04

but it was after the time that I'd already

34:06

been invited on. And you know that when they

34:08

invited me on, I no joke, I said this

34:10

to you off the air, I didn't even think

34:12

I said this on the air, but I was

34:14

pretty sure that the producer accidentally booked me because

34:16

they were trying to book you. Which is the

34:19

most Andrew response of all time. I truly did

34:21

believe that. There was absolutely no basis for that.

34:23

I'm still not 100% sure that wasn't part of

34:25

what happened, but either way, the idea that two

34:27

people would mix us up is ludicrous. Well,

34:29

that is definitely true. I'm kind of a cute one.

34:33

But I just thought like Bill

34:35

said, hey, my friend hosts Too Beautiful to

34:37

Live, you should get them on the show

34:39

and then the producer reached out to the

34:41

wrong guy. So not what happened. But either

34:43

way, I was in

34:46

my head about the whole thing and then I heard

34:48

Lex on and I'd never heard Lex on the radio

34:50

before and they back announced that they're the editor and

34:52

the chief of the needling. And I was

34:54

like, oh, that's maybe why I'm on. Maybe

34:57

they're trying to have like policy person, think

34:59

tank person, or like let's just

35:01

put that like a policy person, a

35:04

reporter person and then a wild card. You know what

35:06

I mean? And I sort of thought somebody who runs

35:08

a or is the editor in chief of a comedy

35:10

website, is that how they describe

35:13

it? A humor website. Yes.

35:16

And maybe that's the role that you or I

35:18

would fill. But the fact that you and Lex

35:20

are both on is interesting. That means that you

35:22

are the journalist by my calculation.

35:24

I'm the journalist there to push back on

35:27

David Bose's small government musings,

35:29

which I don't think is going to

35:31

be good for anyone listening in Seattle. Like if

35:34

I'm the bulwark against us, we

35:36

got problems. We got real problems. Bring a little

35:38

bathtub so we can drown the government in it.

35:41

All right. Here's what I'm going to propose. I'm

35:43

going to make an executive decision here. Your house,

35:45

your rules. That's right. Because I am

35:47

concerned about you. Because I am concerned about your time. And

35:50

I appreciate that. And I think we have a lot to

35:52

talk about. I think that we are going to skip

35:55

the dazzling donors today. We're going to thank them

35:57

on Monday. Wow. But while we take a

35:59

little break here, I have one package I'm gonna open

36:01

during the break. Oh, I like it. By

36:04

the way, Andrew, I have never been more attracted

36:06

to you. Yeah, just take charge. I like to

36:08

take charge. Yeah, no, you're in my territory. So

36:10

we're gonna do that and we'll come back and

36:13

we'll do top stories and we'll talk about how

36:15

much you love Xfinity. Oh my gosh, Andrew. I

36:18

mean, well, we'll get to it in a minute. Hello

36:26

and welcome to Top Story. All right, what do

36:28

you have over there, my friend? So

36:30

this is what we check for. Do we need the...

36:33

This is not a formal what's in

36:35

the box, but are we missing an opportunity? I

36:37

mean, you do like that, don't you? I mean...

36:40

That's kind of what's in the box and we paid

36:42

a lot of money for it. Yeah, exactly. Just to

36:44

license David Cross saying, have some at

36:46

the end of this drop. This is my

36:48

box. This is my box. I

36:51

never travel without my box. No, what's

36:53

in the box? In the first roll,

36:55

I keep my magic stuff. No, what's

36:58

in the box? You're hearing Andrew react

37:00

to what's in the box. Lick it,

37:02

it's black, sweet, lick it. Okay.

37:05

Have some. Have some. This

37:08

is a very thoughtful little

37:10

care package from a listener,

37:12

Elizabeth and Ballard. I'm

37:17

going to hand you the note, but I'm going to tell you

37:19

what's in there before even reading the note. One

37:21

is a book that is very, very, very

37:23

special to me. It is from the mixed

37:25

up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler. Oh

37:27

my gosh, sure. It's a young adult novel

37:30

that is one of my favorite books of

37:32

all time. In E. L. Koenigsberg, I ended

37:34

up getting to meet her one time because

37:36

she was my friend's aunt, rest in peace.

37:39

I have a little bit of a- Is that a Caldecott Award winner?

37:41

Is that with that gold? I believe it's Newberry.

37:44

Oh, Newberry. Newberry, yeah, maybe. We're doing a good

37:46

one. Caldecott is for fools. So I've talked about

37:48

that before. I used to have a signed version

37:50

of this as well. My one

37:52

sort of cringy memory is I got to, I think

37:54

I said a quick hello to E. L. Koenigsberg, but

37:56

I did not really like kind of, maybe I

37:58

didn't even say hello to E. L. Koenigsberg. I might have been too

38:00

shy. She was, you know, she was- Was it at like an event?

38:03

It was at my friend's wedding. Oh, okay. So

38:05

my friend was a very,

38:08

very close friend of Genevieve's who she grew up

38:10

with and is now a friend of mine. I

38:12

was at her wedding and her great aunt was

38:14

Yale Konigsberg and so she was there. And I

38:16

think I was too shy. I didn't want to

38:18

just be the zillionth person to say how much

38:21

your work means to me. But you know what?

38:23

I could have told her how much her work means to me. But

38:25

I really think this is sweet. So a fresh

38:27

copy from the mix of Piles from Miss Basily

38:30

Frank Wyler and this I love.

38:35

A DVD, Luke. I

38:37

can't see what he's- he's got a delt

38:39

computer blocking my view. So I'm gonna- Love.

38:44

A movie starring Vincent

38:46

DiNafrio and

38:48

Renee Zellweger. The whole wide

38:51

world. It's all he's ever

38:53

known. It's all he ever

38:55

wants to know. The worst

38:57

trailer in movie

39:00

trailer history. It is

39:02

sublime. But I will say

39:04

this. Because it

39:06

is a DVD, I bet you the trailer is on

39:08

the DVD. You're right. This is the perfect- this is

39:11

the perfect format. I have a DVD right here. Can

39:13

I run it? I don't know if

39:15

I can run this. I would love- I would love- and I'll tell you this

39:17

Andrew. This is- this is the story

39:19

of the guy who wrote Conan the

39:21

Barbarian, right? Exactly, yes. But it's like

39:24

this- oh the trailer. I've never seen

39:26

the movie but the trailer is this

39:28

super overwrought- Yes. Like

39:31

dramatic- sexual dramatic journey

39:33

of his- trying

39:36

to write the truth of

39:38

like Conan. Now

39:40

the thing is, I don't

39:42

want to throw anyone under any buses but

39:44

there is a very- in like a large

39:46

font there's a review on the back. Terrific.

39:49

A touching and near flawless love story

39:51

written by William Arnold of the Seattle

39:54

Post-Intelligencer. Do you know him? No

39:56

but I know that was Seattle- was Seattle

39:58

the place? where this

40:00

movie really resonated also let me read

40:02

this if i can the letter attached

40:04

to this note hi andrew just a

40:06

couple of items for your

40:08

enjoyment it was fun to reread the

40:11

book i'd always remembered it fondly feel

40:13

free to keep it or donate it

40:15

as you like as for the movie

40:18

i saw it cheap uh in the

40:20

used aisle at scarecrow where i was not

40:22

that long ago why were you at scarecrow

40:24

we were filming no it was me and

40:26

ken jennings wandering around scarecrow it didn't end

40:28

up in the tv story but we filmed

40:30

there as another side of ken jennings he's

40:32

on the board of scarecrow video i didn't

40:34

know that so you guys came up to

40:36

seattle you were out of town in l.a

40:38

oh i see because i remember when you

40:40

went down to l.a and you talked to

40:42

you were out of town this is why

40:44

you wouldn't know this and i bought a

40:46

bunch of dvds at scarecrow cool because i

40:48

couldn't stop myself because they were i bought

40:50

like the odd couple uh-huh and um the movie

40:53

the movie the like jack lemonde waltz or math

40:55

owl one and um i can't even remember the

40:57

other two that i bought but it was like

41:00

what i was saying on the show when you weren't here was i

41:02

figured out the the store that if i

41:05

go into it i'm incapable of leaving without

41:07

something yeah and it's scarecrow video yeah because

41:09

there's something about that physical media the smell

41:12

of a video store um anyway

41:14

elizabeth says i saw this cheap on the

41:16

used aisle at scarecrow and i couldn't resist

41:18

it not good feel

41:21

free to toss it's not

41:23

worth donating so

41:26

this is where elizabeth and bill arnold of

41:28

the seattle post intelligence are really part company

41:30

that's right signed elizabeth uh listener elizabeth who

41:32

is a ballard 10 that is so sweet

41:34

i just love the fact that like jennifer

41:37

and i literally were in a movie theater

41:39

in the early 2000s i believe

41:41

or maybe this maybe my timeline's wrong

41:44

maybe we rented something but we saw this

41:46

trailer for the whole wide world we it

41:48

immediately became an inside joke between us and

41:50

also some inside jokes within inside jokes because

41:52

i never admitted that it was vincent and

41:54

offre how i always thought it was the

41:57

guy from in cino man but

41:59

uh Brendan Fraser, I always said it was Brendan Fraser.

42:02

We would fight about that whatever and I just love

42:04

the fact that like this 23

42:07

year old weird inside. I mean this is as

42:09

much a gift for Thank

42:12

you, that's very thoughtful that is way cool. You know,

42:14

it was not thoughtful Andrew was whoever

42:18

had Xfinity thought let's

42:20

go ahead and Let's

42:23

charge more for baseball games. I guess they would

42:25

blame the Mariners organization for this root sports No,

42:27

no, it was a Comcast decision. It was a

42:29

Comcast decision. Yeah, so can I just do the

42:31

little Set up because you know actually

42:33

know much like see the Seattle political scene, you know

42:36

more about this than I do We're gonna set it

42:38

up. I think we talked about this I

42:40

know I talked about this a lot just with friends

42:42

and maybe on other podcasts I'm pretty sure that you

42:44

and I got into it as well because one of

42:46

the as much as I love they know we got

42:48

Into it as we got into it as much as

42:50

I love baseball the the

42:52

the Current situation with these

42:54

billionaire owners just like trying to especially here

42:56

in Seattle I feel like trying to squeeze

42:59

every last time out of the fans Is

43:02

getting really really frustrating for me on various

43:04

levels and this last one that happened during

43:06

the offseason was especially calling now I'm not

43:08

even somebody who pays for cable in my

43:10

house But basically if you're somebody who has

43:12

Comcast cable and a reason for that for

43:14

a lot of people I think in this

43:16

region is for the live sports for access

43:19

to Mariners games. Yeah, they're not over the

43:21

air at all the

43:23

Comcast people made the decision to move root

43:26

sports the station where you can watch Mariners

43:28

games up into a more expensive Tier now

43:30

I can tell you exactly the tier now

43:32

by the way and root sports like they

43:35

didn't necessarily want that because it's not Good

43:37

for them is the Mariners basically also. Oh,

43:39

it's one of those team-owned networks. Yes, it's

43:41

all Just it's all

43:44

just money scratching money. Yeah, it's just

43:46

so bad But either way

43:48

the Mariners technically didn't want this because they

43:50

want more eyeballs on their product, but definitely

43:54

The the Xfinity is gonna make more money off of

43:56

this and then that actually led to a lot

43:58

of grumbling at the beginning of the

44:00

offseason when like kind of you know teams

44:03

were trading it looked like the Mariners were

44:05

dumping a bunch of salary not to put

44:07

it back into the team but basically just

44:09

to protect the profit of John Stanton and

44:12

the other people in the owner's group. They

44:14

were saying that the baseball team was saying

44:16

to the cable people well if you're going

44:18

to put us in a more expensive bracket

44:21

of cable service we cannot charge as much

44:23

for our advertising because fewer people will be

44:25

watching us and because we're losing money now

44:28

on priceless granite TV

44:30

commercials and stop freaking co-coz we're

44:32

losing money on Bobby Wagner tackling

44:34

people with plumbing problems. We

44:37

need to... I think Sean is still doing that too. Like

44:41

boy did he ever sign a life right

44:43

deal with Beacon plumbing but like because they're

44:46

gonna make less money on their advertising on

44:48

their TV network because not as many people

44:50

will see it because there's essentially more paywall

44:52

now. Because of that we

44:54

now can't pay our players we can't

44:56

spend money on good players because

45:00

we're losing money on we're not making as

45:02

much money on our television product. And by the

45:04

way there's no salary cap there's no reason

45:06

why they quote-unquote can. It's just about and again

45:08

it's not even about the ownership taking a

45:10

loss it's about them getting less profit. Exactly

45:12

and that is why somehow this weird confluence

45:15

of sort of what we care

45:19

about on the field which is the Mariners winning and

45:22

what is annoying to us which is having to

45:25

pay more money to watch the

45:27

baseball games. Those working at

45:29

cross purposes in this way just maddening

45:31

on so many level it's like an

45:33

annoying it's an annoying television customer experience

45:35

and it's a devastating baseball fan experience.

45:37

All kind of crashing into each other.

45:40

And I guess you're not in King

45:42

County but still in

45:44

theory our tax dollars are also

45:46

going towards maintaining that stadium and

45:49

that experience where I literally bought

45:51

an $18 beer last season. So

45:54

we talked about this when it happened that it's gonna

45:56

I was I didn't realize because I don't

45:59

outside of The Mariners watch a lot of root sports.

46:01

I clearly did not watch any blazer

46:04

game. Yeah, that's what I've learned or

46:06

crackin Yeah, I have not watched. I'm

46:08

you know what? I'll

46:10

raise my hand. I have not watched any

46:12

blazers or cracking. I know that because Yesterday

46:15

at about 6 30

46:17

as the as our text chain was starting to

46:19

pop off a little bit and we're all getting

46:21

excited It was kind of the Sun had come

46:23

out. I was Feeling

46:25

baseball-y and I went to

46:28

and again I even without this I

46:30

spend way too much money on my cable television So

46:32

that I can have this experience enter when

46:35

it's time for the game I pick up

46:37

my remote control and I turn it on and I

46:39

start watching the game exactly That's the whole reason that

46:41

I do this because I don't talk into the

46:43

remote Seattle Mariners You're not getting HDMI cables out

46:45

of your drawer the way I am exactly and I'm

46:47

not I just don't want any Interruption

46:50

in my ability to enjoy this

46:52

thing when I want to

46:54

enjoy it I don't want any hassle and I

46:56

pay so much money to ensure that there will

46:59

never be any hassle well, of course, I go

47:01

to that channel and it gives me this screen

47:04

that says This is

47:06

not part of your package. You must

47:08

upgrade you must upgrade and I'm annoyed but

47:11

I'm like, well, I knew this was coming

47:14

The I go to the

47:17

Xfinity website, which is almost as bad

47:19

as using the Xfinity phone service, which

47:21

is really amazing Yeah, their website Their

47:24

website is as bad as their phone thing because

47:26

if you're willing to sit there with your laptop

47:28

and go to the URL That's listed on the

47:30

television screen as I was at that point. It

47:32

should be fairly straightforward Like you

47:35

know me my normal thing is I want to call someone I

47:37

want to see if I can get a deal I want to

47:39

see if I can grease the the wheels on things in this

47:41

one I was like, you know what the game starting in 35

47:43

minutes. I Just

47:46

want to watch the game. I Know

47:49

that I'm gonna break down and pay this money. I'm

47:51

gonna upgrade to this larger package of whatever I can't

47:53

remember what it is when you look at it monthly.

47:56

It's like, okay, I guess it's somewhat reasonable But at

47:58

the end of the year, it's In

48:00

the hundreds of dollars. Yeah, because

48:02

it's also impossible, impossible to

48:05

know what you're really paying, because here's what

48:07

happens. I get, I finally hack into the

48:09

mainframe, and I'm looking at my account. And

48:11

it's showing me the one that I have,

48:13

which is like 125 channels, plus I have

48:16

the, you know, we'll call it the premium

48:18

package. Which, it's like, it's like

48:20

how now like a, um, a small soda

48:22

is, like, they've renamed everything. I

48:24

have the premium package, but it's also the

48:26

fewest number of channels I can have. Wait,

48:28

you're in the family everything plan. Precisely. Get

48:30

Camille Nongiani in here. It

48:33

was like, I have the, well, I have the premium package.

48:35

That should be the, like, that sounds pretty premium.

48:37

And I'm looking at it, it's like, no, you don't have

48:39

root sports. So then I go up to the next one.

48:42

Increased a monthly bill by $18.50 to

48:44

get into this new premium, family premium

48:46

level. So then, like, I go, okay,

48:48

well, I have premium, but that's not

48:51

enough. So I go over to the

48:53

next column, and it's like extra

48:55

premium. And that's like 140 plus channels. And

48:59

I scroll down to where it says root sports. Not

49:01

included. I go up to the next

49:03

one. I have to go up to the

49:06

highest amount of channels, which

49:08

is 185 channels plus. Are

49:11

you looking at that? Ultimate or

49:13

something? It's called Ultimate. It's just like they

49:15

keep on trading more and more. It's

49:18

so... Ultimate premium. Right? Oh,

49:21

you wanted the ultimate premium. You've worked

49:23

hard, Mr. Burbank. You deserve ultimate premium

49:25

luxury. In your channel

49:27

selection of, by the way, easily

49:30

180 channels I don't care about. Yeah,

49:34

of course. Just to watch that. 185 plus is 180 more channels than I really

49:36

will. You

49:40

know what the channels I will watch are?

49:42

Root Sports, MSNBC, and Fox

49:44

and CBS, because they have the Seahawks games.

49:47

Okay, and Seahawks games also over the air,

49:49

by the way. That's one thing to say

49:51

for football. A lot of people have said, Andrew,

49:53

just get yourself a digital antenna, and you can

49:55

watch those. Again, I sort of feel like

49:57

there is a tax component of this. You

50:00

know a city component of this that they

50:02

should be over the airwaves So

50:04

I'm I'm annoyed that I'm having to jump

50:07

through these hoops, but it's also this is

50:09

a slow speed crash I

50:11

know that it's happening. I'm trying to turn into

50:13

the slide, but it's inevitable I am going to

50:15

pay this extra $18 a month You're

50:18

you're just like I'm gonna pay for this because

50:20

I love baseball and I'm also by the way

50:22

the game hasn't started So I'm just brimming with

50:24

optimism I'm like this is gonna

50:26

be the season and I'm gonna have such a

50:29

fun the next you know six months

50:31

of my life or whatever Are gonna be so much

50:33

fun because I'm gonna be coming in out of this

50:35

room and the Mariners are gonna be on I'm gonna

50:37

Be grilling and chilling and it's like I create this

50:39

whole fantasy life for myself that involves this baseball team

50:41

being on this television And so

50:43

alright, I'm doing it. Oh by the way, the reason you

50:45

can't ever tell What it's costing

50:48

you is because the other channel the other packages

50:51

when you look at them So I have whatever

50:53

premium or something when I look at like

50:55

premium plus whatever the next one up is

50:57

it lists it as costing me? Negative $18

50:59

a month. In other words, my price is

51:01

going to go down allegedly because

51:04

I have this lever

51:06

selected that is Basically showing

51:08

me packages where I'm now obligating myself

51:10

to two more years of like coverage

51:13

You know how they do that whole situation So

51:15

not only you can't just buy this and

51:17

dump it or whatever after six months or

51:19

what have you I can't figure out what

51:21

well, no. No I can but what they're

51:23

trying to do is Brain

51:27

trick me so that I'm going like wait,

51:29

I'm getting I'm getting ultimate premium, but it's

51:31

it's $20 less a month I

51:34

can't afford not to give them my money

51:37

I know a fool would turn this deal

51:39

down and it's like well because what I'm

51:41

doing is signing a cell phone contract with

51:43

them That like yeah, they're taking the price

51:45

down, but I can never get out of

51:48

the contract for X You know I mean

51:50

just every every possible way But

51:53

one Andrew every possible way that

51:55

this system could be making me angry Except

51:58

the final the piece de resistance The

52:00

coup de gras.

52:02

The coup

52:05

de Jacob de Gras on

52:07

this whole situation is I finally

52:10

click I add it to my cart and

52:12

I click next and it just

52:14

spins and spins and gives me an error

52:16

message. Sorry I actually

52:18

took a picture of it Andrew it just says like sorry

52:21

we're having trouble please try again. Probably because a

52:24

lot of it was right before the baseball game.

52:26

Exactly! I went on I don't usually go on

52:28

the website that I call Twitter but I you

52:30

and I were texting a little bit about this

52:32

last night and this infuriates me so much and

52:35

I was like you know what I'm gonna do

52:37

I'm just gonna hate scroll on Twitter I just

52:39

went to Twitter and typed in a root sport

52:41

and just read tweet after tweet after tweet of

52:44

people like and as I suspected

52:46

like I listen to

52:48

sports radio all the time I pretty plugged into

52:50

this whole story about the price increase and everything

52:52

but I was like I'll bet you a lot

52:55

of casual Mariners fans figured this out last night

52:57

at the moment I did. At seven o'clock when

52:59

they turned on their TV to watch a 710

53:01

game and it's just like and so I think

53:03

the website I'm guessing was crashed because all these

53:06

people were just like what the hell now I

53:08

gotta upgrade and Tom Bass could take their money.

53:10

Exactly the fact that these evil evil

53:13

bastards you're bastard people that's

53:15

our second or third wave

53:18

or guffman reference so you're telling

53:20

me so

53:22

I'm not getting anything I'm not getting any money

53:25

well our whole budget that's our whole budget and

53:27

that includes swimming well there's no swimming in my

53:29

show like the

53:31

idea that these billionaires and

53:35

billion-dollar companies would

53:37

exert their will on us in this way that makes

53:39

me feel impotent like I say not in the good

53:42

way and then when

53:44

I finally break when I when I kiss

53:46

the ring when I

53:48

when they turn me into reek

53:51

from from Game of

53:54

Thrones when I go full reek

53:56

on it and I'm willing to just give them

53:58

more of my money Never go full

54:00

reek. What

54:04

I'm willing to just like, okay, you know

54:06

what? I'll pay you an extra $20 a

54:08

month, an extra

54:10

$400 a year, whatever the math

54:12

is, for literally 180 channels that I will

54:14

never, ever, ever use. I

54:19

am giving you all of this so I can

54:21

have this one thing, which is my baseball team.

54:24

And then they haven't even put

54:26

in the redundancies in their system to account

54:29

for the fact that 100,000

54:31

other people had the same experience, that they couldn't

54:33

have seen this coming, that there was no

54:35

way on the horizon for them to

54:37

go, yeah, you know what? Seven o'clock on

54:40

Thursday, March 28th is probably gonna be

54:43

a big day for our website, that

54:45

they couldn't figure that out. You know

54:47

what? You're a website company. You

54:49

know what did work, Andrew? The

54:52

site that you forwarded me. The janky site.

54:54

Yeah. I clicked on it. You

54:56

know what I was doing within 30 seconds? Watching

54:59

the Seattle flipping Mariners throw hittable pitches

55:01

to Rafael Devers. I don't usually brag

55:03

about stealing media because I feel like

55:06

in most cases, like with journalism, with

55:08

photography, with... that stuff is really important

55:10

to me, that the people who create

55:13

those things aren't like just sort of

55:15

invisible and we assume everything is free

55:17

and because that's how we lose

55:20

journalists and photojournalists. And

55:22

the field shrinks. Having

55:24

said that, it's a moral

55:26

obligation for us to steal.

55:29

I do want to say this. I did get a very

55:31

nice email from a listener saying, hey, could you kind of

55:34

just quietly on the DL send me a link? That's

55:37

kind of where I draw the line only because I

55:40

feel it's unprofessional of me to start sending gray

55:43

market links to listeners. I do have to draw

55:45

the line there. I'm really sorry that I'm... But

55:48

I also think that if you're

55:50

listening to the show, you're smart enough to figure it out. You'll

55:52

do a little Googling. You can figure it out. They're surprising.

55:55

They're right there in plain sight. I'm surprised. The first time

55:57

I asked you, could you just like kind of tip me

55:59

off on that? I thought it was gonna

56:01

be the dark net. Yeah, I mean it

56:03

ain't Silk Road You do have to be

56:05

very patient with pop-ups and stuff when it's

56:07

first happening And it might be scary if you're

56:09

somebody who does not play on the on

56:11

the on the Scuzzier side of the internet

56:13

from time to time but the pop-ups are not

56:15

anything filthy and I've never I've

56:18

never gotten any kind of a virus or something that my

56:20

computers couldn't handle I did want to while you were going through

56:22

that Luke and I was texting with you a little bit

56:24

and by the way We don't have to get into it I

56:26

realized the text that I sent you that I was trying to

56:28

be helpful about Was probably not helpful

56:30

in the moment didn't bother me really when it really did

56:32

it you were kind of you were like I thought I

56:34

already paid for this and I sent you a off

56:37

of the main tech chain I so was

56:39

like hey listen that increase happened since the

56:41

last baseball season I'd be surprised if

56:44

you actually upgraded, but I was kind of like that's

56:46

not what he needs to hear right now He's figuring

56:48

it out. Like I didn't take Didn't

56:51

make me I because because when I said in the

56:53

in the in our sports chat I was like and

56:56

I think I already have it it just because I

56:58

my my sense of going through life right now and

57:01

I think a lot of people have this and and

57:03

it's good that we Skip the dazzling donors today because

57:05

TV till plays right into this The

57:07

sense we have in life is like aren't I

57:10

always just going fine five more dollars, right? Yeah

57:12

I feel like I'm always gonna how did you

57:14

not have it fine? I like my

57:16

memory is I would have told you if you

57:18

woke me up out of a dead sleep Did

57:20

you have an annoying experience where you told Xfinity

57:22

slash Comcast fine? I would be like yeah I

57:24

did have that and I hadn't I mean let's

57:26

take this it was a Wednesday and the whole

57:28

wide world was on and you're like Fine, I'll

57:30

take it all Luke's ever known. It's all he'll

57:32

ever know Yeah, I was just like, you know,

57:34

I must have just I

57:36

must have just caved on this at some point But I did

57:38

it which I'm kind of happy about because what it means is

57:40

I wasn't at least paying for this For

57:42

the last six months exactly so these

57:45

there's that so I just wanted to add

57:47

a little bit more fuel to this just Anti-capitalist

57:50

fire I guess because here here was

57:52

my experience yesterday before rent is theft

57:55

Before you even got to

57:58

that spot and we started texting about it.

58:00

I had my own little experience with Major

58:02

League Baseball, so there

58:04

is an app and a service,

58:07

MLB TV, where you can essentially

58:09

watch every game except

58:11

for your own team's games,

58:13

right? And it's about $150 for the

58:15

season to buy this thing. I

58:18

pay like $20 at the beginning of the

58:20

season, so I get radio access to all the

58:22

games. And then around this time of year, because

58:24

I'm a T-Mobile customer, and this is honestly one

58:26

of the reasons I remain a T-Mobile customer for

58:28

this perk, which is I get free MLB TV.

58:31

But there's a short window in which I need

58:33

to sign up for it, but they're like, this

58:35

is $150 value. So I

58:37

take that at face value. I'm basically paying

58:39

$150 for this thing. It's given to me

58:43

free through T-Mobile,

58:45

but still it's something that I'm essentially paying

58:47

for and it's legal. So it's

58:50

about two hours before the Mariners game. I'm

58:52

hungry for some baseball. So the Cubs

58:56

are playing the Rangers.

59:00

So I'm listening to the game and I mean, this is good.

59:02

Then I'm like, Oh, I need to get some work done. So

59:05

I sit down behind my computer and I'm like, Oh, I'll sign

59:07

up for my free MLB TV. I

59:09

can actually watch this game now. Again,

59:11

I want to point out this is

59:13

the Chicago Cubs and the Texas Rangers.

59:15

I go through all of this. Yeah.

59:21

And I go through

59:24

all of this rigmarole to like sign up for it.

59:26

And you know, the handshake is never perfect from my

59:28

one account talking to the other account, but I get

59:30

to figure it out pretty quickly. But it

59:33

doesn't seem to be working. I'm like, why isn't that working? And

59:35

then I realized they blacked out

59:37

that game for me. It's

59:40

not even a local team, which that is backwards. Anyway,

59:42

it's like you can, you can pay 150 bucks for

59:44

a season and then not

59:47

watch your team. You can only watch out of market

59:49

games. Why in the world would it be blacked out?

59:52

I'm guessing that maybe major league baseball was just like,

59:54

well, it's opening day. People are more interested in these

59:56

games. And so we can squeeze money out of them.

1:00:00

broadcast was probably on MLB Network that might have

1:00:02

been it because I might have been in these

1:00:04

cool teams and it's the opening day so because

1:00:06

they're not playing because you're not just watching it

1:00:08

you're not just dipping into like the Chicago you

1:00:11

know feed of it because it's it's

1:00:13

a it's a highlighted game yeah it's being presented in this

1:00:16

special way that takes it off the list of games that

1:00:18

they have to let you that you essentially paid $150 to

1:00:20

watch right it's just kind of

1:00:22

like no no we don't let you watch all the

1:00:24

games we just let you watch the Wednesday game and

1:00:27

just like but here's another example of

1:00:29

like you're paying for cable you can't watch the

1:00:31

game I'm essentially paying for MLB TV oh but you

1:00:33

can't watch the game because it's blacked out and then

1:00:35

so I and then you and I are texting about

1:00:37

the Comcast thing and I'm getting more and more steamed

1:00:40

by the way I did watch part of that Cubs

1:00:42

game through an illegal stream yes after

1:00:44

I just essentially legally paid for the service and

1:00:46

I'm just in my head about it and

1:00:48

then the game is about to start and I'm

1:00:51

watching the Mariners game on my computer Luke and

1:00:54

our well your friend and

1:00:56

Seattle the pride of Seattle Ben Gibber oh

1:00:58

sure going to sing the national anthem oh

1:01:01

nice and they you know

1:01:04

the announcer is announcing all the players are

1:01:06

doing the full roster it's opening I want

1:01:08

to live in amber

1:01:10

waves of grain before they

1:01:15

introduce him the announcer which I think for

1:01:17

this part of the broadcast is probably both

1:01:20

the announcer that I'm hearing on television and

1:01:22

the announcer in the park probably Tom one

1:01:24

to Hitler is that it the low voice

1:01:26

please turn your attention and

1:01:29

he didn't say the flag he

1:01:31

said to our grand American flag

1:01:35

presented by Starbucks oh

1:01:38

and my head almost

1:01:41

exploded they are

1:01:43

sponsoring the American flag they

1:01:46

are taking Starbucks money to

1:01:48

sponsor the American flag

1:01:50

and I can't watch baseball

1:01:52

games that I'm paying for

1:01:54

by the way I'm going the game on Tuesday

1:02:00

Alright, let's do a little music

1:02:02

for your weekend, but a

1:02:04

sort of modified version, because you're right, Andrew, I should be,

1:02:06

I should probably be, well first of all,

1:02:09

reading about the Grizzlies reintroduction to the Pacific

1:02:11

Northwest. Is that one of your topics, really?

1:02:14

That's something I already know a lot about, thank

1:02:16

God. Right. I mean

1:02:18

literally, I said on a list of like, I said

1:02:20

on a list of just like, meaningless, dumb hot dog

1:02:22

stories that I could just vamp on, and then the

1:02:25

response was, how about these policy issues? Oh, I really

1:02:27

thought that you were gonna get a good week where

1:02:29

it was all gonna be like the fun stuff, the

1:02:31

Costco hot dog stories and what have you. But

1:02:34

I do need to get to that, so let's do this. We're

1:02:37

gonna kind of keep this compact today,

1:02:40

and in fact, you know what we're gonna do? We're

1:02:43

going to just do one song. Okay,

1:02:45

cool, and just so the listeners don't think that

1:02:47

you're bullying me out of my music for your

1:02:49

weekend, all this morning, I was like, I don't

1:02:51

have a new song. I was gonna replay something

1:02:54

I played about a year ago. I actually have,

1:02:56

there are some good listeners, because I mentioned yesterday

1:02:58

on the show, Andrew, that we're starting over on

1:03:00

email, and that

1:03:02

if people wanna get a music for your weekend and this

1:03:04

is a good time, that really worked. I

1:03:06

got a bunch of submissions, and a bunch

1:03:08

of them are really good. So if you've

1:03:10

sent that in, just know that I'm organizing

1:03:12

those and I'm watching this space. But

1:03:17

because we're a little crunched for

1:03:19

time today, and because it happens

1:03:21

to be the actual birthday of

1:03:23

my friend and noted Seattle Mariner

1:03:26

fan, also my brother, maybe critically

1:03:28

my brother, my friend, and

1:03:31

noted Seattle Mariner's fan, David Burbank, David

1:03:33

from the Basement, he reached out and

1:03:35

says, hey fellas, I wanted to suggest a song

1:03:37

for Music for Your Weekend this Friday. Well,

1:03:40

I could have suggested literally any song from the

1:03:42

new Waxahatchee record. Oh, by the way, the other

1:03:44

day on the show, I was saying how I

1:03:47

was describing a certain kind of lifestyle

1:03:50

and it was involving having Waxahatchee

1:03:52

on vinyl, having Monstera plants,

1:03:55

and wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and David

1:03:57

then Took a video which he put in

1:03:59

the Hawk Squad. The where he's in his home.

1:04:02

Showing. His wax a hatchery vinyl record

1:04:04

and his monster a plants while wearing a

1:04:06

white professor added weight He stages for this

1:04:08

was his the i was you else i

1:04:10

think he he said something to the effect

1:04:13

of he felt very he felt very called

1:04:15

called outer called in by this ah so

1:04:17

i mean the the the the album and

1:04:19

the plants were there may be put the

1:04:21

had on ah but anyway so are today

1:04:23

happens to be my brother dave it's birthday

1:04:25

and he said i he i couldn't let

1:04:28

suggest anything off the new x had to

1:04:30

record Instead I want to suggest the song.

1:04:33

Pink. Pony Club Bites Apple Roan

1:04:35

are you guys have probably heard samples

1:04:37

music at this point you just on

1:04:39

tiny desk and is about to absolute

1:04:41

explode on the seats. David Ah I

1:04:44

couldn't agree more. I have been having

1:04:46

this thought about Chapel Roan for a

1:04:48

while. Chaperone is someone that if you

1:04:50

have not heard of her. You.

1:04:53

Will be hearing of her because

1:04:55

she's she's touring. She's got all

1:04:57

these songs that are really blowing

1:04:59

up. She played Call Bear Season

1:05:01

that phase of a of a

1:05:03

music career where I think she's

1:05:05

playing probably likes to or two

1:05:07

thousand person venues and they're. Sold.

1:05:10

Out and the kids. The young

1:05:12

people are doing. They. Have they

1:05:14

have most hand motions for songs like they

1:05:16

do. They spell out some of the songs

1:05:18

with like almost can like Y M C

1:05:20

A but other words like. The

1:05:22

obsession with this chapel roan person.

1:05:25

Is Huge! See his. You are going to

1:05:27

be hearing about her this summer. And by

1:05:29

the way, this album it's called us The

1:05:32

Rise and Fall of the Midwest Princess is

1:05:34

really really going. It is Sabina Park. It's

1:05:36

pop music. but it's it's pop music that

1:05:38

really has a point of view. It's really

1:05:40

catchy. Ah, I'm anyway. I'm very I'm I'm

1:05:43

enjoying from afar. I'm a little old for

1:05:45

the chapel roan phenomenon so I was base

1:05:47

again. and the wax the hatch, the conversation

1:05:49

leading into this and the cover of this

1:05:51

particular single and what. She's wearing a wide

1:05:54

brimmed hat and it's all pink. and

1:05:56

it's called pink pony club i thought this was gonna

1:05:58

be sort of wax a hatchery yeah geez This

1:06:00

isn't country fine. It's not country fine. It's much

1:06:02

more poppy okay in fact I said to Becca

1:06:04

I was like have you heard a chapel Rowan

1:06:06

and she was like no I go she's like

1:06:08

the next Olivia Rodrigo And I looked up she's

1:06:10

touring with Olivia, Roger you go so remember that

1:06:12

whole you said forever now I

1:06:15

drive alone past your street that was Olivia,

1:06:17

Rodrigo that whole that's about to

1:06:19

happen with this person Apple Rowan So

1:06:22

we're gonna go with that and by the

1:06:24

way David adds. Yeah PS. It's my birthday

1:06:26

on Friday So you have to play my

1:06:28

song yeah, this is a little minute honestly.

1:06:30

I don't About I'm not I'm not

1:06:32

I'm not sure I want to platform

1:06:34

this honestly seriously David

1:06:37

said it's my birthday, so I need you

1:06:39

to upgrade to the ultimate package of brotherhood

1:06:43

Then I click on it. It says sorry

1:06:45

brother. It's not working try again So all

1:06:47

right earlier today during the show I said

1:06:49

that'd be good show title, and you said

1:06:51

I'll write it down board straight Board straight

1:06:54

okay I hear

1:06:56

is pink pony club. I don't I can't speak

1:06:58

for a chapel Rowan is definitely not shy

1:07:00

about talking about Physical

1:07:02

matters and self-love and I see the name

1:07:04

pink pony club, and I don't think it's

1:07:06

not about oh that's interesting Yeah, and didn't

1:07:09

you last week play wet dream?

1:07:13

Something's they're getting something stirring Time

1:07:16

yeah, all right. Thanks for listening. We'll see you on

1:07:18

Monday until then have a great weekend And please remember

1:07:20

to mountain too tall and good luck to all the

1:07:23

way another

1:07:25

week a

1:07:27

dream a leaving

1:07:29

day you see the baby

1:07:33

baby baby

1:07:36

baby baby

1:07:41

baby baby baby

1:07:47

baby baby

1:07:51

baby baby

1:07:55

baby baby

1:08:00

What I need from you, because you're

1:08:03

the bosses of the town essentially, is

1:08:05

to be able to make

1:08:30

a profit. And I know that if, this

1:08:33

is so hard, I

1:08:35

need more money.

1:08:39

What I need is a

1:08:46

hundred thousand dollars. Oh,

1:08:49

another key! He's not kidding. Corky our entire

1:08:51

budget for

1:08:58

the entire year is fifteen thousand

1:09:00

dollars for everything and that includes

1:09:02

swimming. Well, I don't

1:09:04

have any swimming in my shoe. I mean the

1:09:06

pool. Power out.