#4821 This Is The Droid I Was Looking For

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1:01Well, all right. Hello. Good morning and welcome everyone to a Wednesday edition of T-B-T-L. The show that just might be too beautiful to live. What a fun sexy time for you. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host. Welcome to the internet. Come and do you once again from Los Angeles, California. I feel warm and I'm levitating. Where we got sunshine, it's beautiful blue skies. It's looking about 75 degrees and we are ready. To bring you episode 4,821 in a collector series. That's a fun begin. If you're a regular listener to this show, you know that I love this city. I love Los Angeles. But I do need to talk to the dog owners of LA. That dog is barking? That is not my dog. About a couple of things. I've got some notes that I like to share with them. Also, I like to share some notes with whoever it is that owns the Robo cars known as the WAMO. I thought they smelled bad. On the outside. Nothing gold can stay, my friends. Nothing gold can stay.

2:01We'll talk about WAMO. I also made a promise yesterday on the show that I would do almost no research for today's program. So as to create room for the V-Mail segment. So we will do that as well. With the help of this guy, the collector of the V-Mails and the longest-firing co-bro of the show. Maybe best known for his selections of the tall ships. He is Andrew. He is good. Well, Shani is joining me right now. Good morning, my friend. Good morning. In addition to the Apple-related voicemail that I've been wanting to play for a really long time, I saw like literally moments ago as you were reading your intro. Not reading. Sorry. There's a little light-negging on the Wednesday morning. As you were doing your intro, I saw on our voicemail line that we got to follow up from the trucker who clogged that toilet. So we'll have to get into that as well. I haven't even listened to it yet. It's going to be one of the rare voicemails that we play without listening to it ahead of time. But we got it here. We got to hear it. Just to update people if they missed that episode.

3:02What do you think the chances are that somebody missed that episode, Andrew? But they are listening to this episode. I mean, what else do they need to know? We're going to play it later on. We're going to set up and play a voicemail from a trucker who clogged a toilet. But who then told the people that the toilet was clogged and they said we will handle it. Yes. Which we'll all get into as we play that voicemail. All right. Yes, very excited about that. So, what do you think of the answer to the question? Is there a chance that today is someone's first day listening to TBL or they only listen occasionally. Like, they're listening right now, but they didn't know. They don't know the story of the trucker in the toilet. What do you think the real chances of that are? Yeah. It's, it, it is a possibility. Like, we, we, we shouted out a listener just last week or two weeks ago. Gloria. Gloria. Gloria. Yeah. Who just started listening, you know, like kind of a couple of months ago, I think, or maybe it was only three weeks in when, so it's, it's, it's got to always be somebody's first

4:02day. Now, a lot of our listeners have been with us for a really, really long time, but or somebody last day. Oh, geez. Let's, well, I don't mean on earth. I just just need to be listening to the show. I'm just listening to my performance exactly. Let's see if I have any stem winder. Luckily, luckily, I don't have any long stem winders today. So I'm actually really interested in hearing all the things that you just set up, but I don't want to push you into them too quickly. Well to update from yesterday, it sounds like all indications are that there will be a television story on CBS this weekend about young people making movies who cut their teeth on YouTube and it is going to be the truth. And so this is interesting. I guess this one you need to do another spider, Luke. I think we have issues with spiders in my house. That one was crawling out of my microphone. I think this is this spider's first day. Listening to TBL. That might have been, I don't even know if I got the spider yesterday.

5:02That might have been the same spider who was just like, I can't take another show. I got to get out of here. He was heading towards the window. You know that I have actually gone to a place of radical acceptance about spiders in my house. Oh yeah, you just leave them. If they're not in my bedroom, I let them live. I let them live inside my home. Do you have a threshold of size really? Well, when I say my house, I also mean the Madrona Hill studio, which is kind of more, you know, it's a converted garage. So it's a little bit more like where they might hang. And there have been a couple of real big ins that I just, I'm like, I don't sleep in here. They're not messing with me. Again, if they were in my bedroom, I would, they would have to die because I would not want them crawling over my face. But if they're definitely in the Madrona Hill studio or even in the kind of living room area of my house, I've just, you know, it's just, I'm letting them live. Do you, by any chance, remember my spider story from being a kid when I was playing with

6:06my little, I remember specifically the star. Star Wars toy I was playing with. I think I had two Star Wars action figures. I didn't have a lot of Star Wars toys. Anyway, that's not relevant. What were the action figures? Well, no, it is relevant because you had two action figures, but then you didn't have things for them to do basically. No, I think I had other action figures. I might have been getting a little bit into G.I. Joe by this point. So although my parents were kind of holding me off of the war stuff for a while, which is, you know, kudos to them. Yeah. I guess Star Wars has in the name. Anyway, I didn't have like a whole bunch of star, oh, you know what, I did have some Star Wars toys, though, because I had like a, a speeder bike that was a really cool toy. You pushed a button on the back and it exploded as if it hit a tree. So I had a few. I had like, I had Princess Leia, the one that went on that speeder bike and then I, but the one I was playing with, I remember very specifically, I don't know if I had other toys out there with me, but my very first action figure, maybe if any action figure was a character that I didn't even recognize from the movies, it was a robot that was a very

7:08spindly robot, very skeletal looking and then it had like a pill shaped head as if you were to take a pill and turn it on its end. It was like, that was the shape of the head. And I believe I've learned in years since that this was some sort of a bounty hunter robot. Does this ring any bell to you at all? But not Boba Fett. No, no, no, Boba Fett a robot. No, that's a guy under there, right? He's a guy under a mask, but he's a bounty hunter. Okay, yeah. So this is like a bounty hunter robot? I believe I learned that later in life. I mean, I'm just glad we don't have any like Star Wars nerds in the audience because otherwise people would be maybe having this answer and being frustrated with my description of it, but it was like a little silver. Well, it's a little because it was a toy. I guess in real life it was probably, it would probably tower over me, but it was a very like again, very like robotic looking robot, very get spindly. In fact, I think of it as being spindly because it may have lost an arm or snapped off. If you had a speeder bike, I'm thinking that this was return of the Jedi era because

8:08speeder bikes were on Endor, right? Yes, although the speeder bike happened to be a toy I had. I had the Leia that went on that speeder bike. I am not claiming that this particular action figure was from Return of the Jedi. I have no idea what movie it's from. Do you know the Star Wars robot that lives in my head rent free and it's not C3PO and it's not R2D2? Not R2D2. Now I'm out of robot names. I don't think this robot even has a name. I mean, it probably does everything in the lore has a name, but there is some weird robot torture facility. Yeah. In the first one, maybe. A robot that has two little feet and the feet are getting scalded. Oh no, it's on the belt or something. It's on something. It's on the belt or it's somehow it's being kind of branded in a way and it makes a little sound. Is this something that you could, I see you on the internet. Yeah, just in my bank balance. Can you see what the robot is?

9:08It's not good. It's not good. Why isn't going down as we speak? I was that possible. Why is your bank making the sound of that robot that's getting scalded? Okay, my memory of this and I could be wrong. But my memory of it is that, sorry, by the way, there's apparently some kind of hollow below here in Westchester with all kinds of sirens and stuff in the background. I don't know if you can hear that, but there's for some reason this robot, my memory is it's getting burned on its feet, but maybe its feet are just kind of like, I don't know, kind of cavorting in some way, but there's somehow this robot is getting scalded and it goes, it makes a sad robot sound. I'm scrolling through things. I'm typing in a robot torture scene, but that's not getting it. Well, that's not moving. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, that's why I'm thinking it counts going down because I just subscribed to something called erotic robot torture. So I'm sorry that I'm not being much help here because I don't think I have the right search terms for this. I found it. It's called gunk torture. Gunk? That's apparently the name.

10:09I sold last year's costume on TV. Sorry about that. That's a robot commercial from something called a D-pop. Dup-dup, let me get through that. Return of the Jedi gunk torture is what we're about to hear. So it's the third movie. Uh-huh. I know that you're saying that you don't know if all of your toys were from that movie, but we know that this, okay, so here's, oh, Andrew. You find it. Can I hear that? It's not a bounty hunter. Your robot is a robot torture. Oh, no. Can you send me a? I'm looking at, I'll send you the link. I am looking at the exact robot that you described who is being mean to the square robot that I was describing to you. So I think if you've been describing the macro here, here we go. You can see it. Very interested in this. Now meanwhile, the irony is, grunk torture I would be into. No. No. We love it. He's, he's still trying to see here.

11:12Now I do have this. Oh, this is not my robot, but, unless it shows up later in the scene, but let me, do you want to play the audio from the listeners? Yeah. For the listeners. I just want them to know that the robot on the screen that I sent you, I mean, it's a square one that's getting burned on its feet in a minute. Yeah. The other one is very skinny and has a large head that looks kind of like a pill to me. But there's another one robot. This other one does not, this is a more of a human kind of style, skull or head. This other one that is on the video. Is the one you sent me. The one that I had literally looks like you took a pill, like a capsule, you cut it in half and you just set it on its shoulders. I go to only spin from side to side. It wouldn't have this kind of human movement. But this is a very spindly robot. I'll give you that. And did you want me to play the sound from my end? Yeah, do you mind? You're in a better audio set up than I am. But I do remember this little boxy robot. He looks like a little trash can, right? Maybe it looks like a cute little trash can or mailbox. And he's going to get, they're going to burn his feet with this little hot thing. And I don't like it.

12:13Do you remember when someone got rised up by baby grunk? You know, whatever happened to baby grunk? I just knew about. Probably in 11th grade right now. Who got rised? Do you remember who got rised up? That was the whole thing. Right? So and so got rised up by baby grunk was the headline of the year, like five years ago. Was it a Seahawk? It was a, it was like, it was a woman. So I guess rised up meant that this baby was sort of macking on somebody, maybe interviewing a camera. Oh, well, that wouldn't be got rised by him. I mean, he's right on them. Baby grunk was like a middle school football player, right? The kind of like reminded people of Grunkowski with his skill set. I believe so. That's how that person got named baby grunk. I believe so. Also because of a lot of like marketing or branding by, I believe his father, maybe. And it was a little bit of a living done and baby grunk. Yes, you're, I'm sorry, you're right. His father was involved in that. I was, for the reason I was hesitant because there was also at the same time a kid who

13:16liked to go to Costco with his dad. Okay. There was a different kid getting rised up by his dad at Costco. Okay. Right. Baby grunk was also getting rised by his dad who was sending out his like highlight films to colleges, basically doing like we will, we are currently accepting offers on baby grunk going to your football program, I believe was what his dad was doing. Let's see here the phrase, Lizzie Dunn and baby grunk refers to a mass of 2023 TikTok and Twitter internet memes. So that was 2023. I don't know. Baby grunk rised up, livy done. That is to remember everybody talking about that phrase. And I think that was before, maybe that was an earlier version of Riz before it came with a lot of things. He was all involved in. I think Riz is kind of like hype someone up. I thought Riz was basically, well, listen, this is the only thing you should be talking about less than Star Wars knowledge, which I still haven't played this sound and I still haven't told you about the spider, but I sort of feel like Riz always meant charm. Like I have Riz as a certain kind of charm and if you Riz somebody you're sort of charming

14:18them. No. You know what? I'll accept it. I think you're definitely, I think you're right. I mean Riz is charisma. So if you have it, you just have charisma or charm. And I guess you could just be charming someone. I think in my mind it's become hyping someone to Riz someone up is to like hype them up, but you're right. If you're using the strict definition of it, it's charisma. You have it. You may demonstrate it to somebody else. Maybe it's not as kind of like involved with like macking on someone to use a very antiquated term that I was thinking. I just love that NBC News had to run this headline NBC News who is baby grunk did Lizzy Riz did Livi Riz him up. What does any of this really mean? This is from June of so they're saying Livi done Riz to him up. Yes, I think I had that backwards. Baby grunk Livi and Riz are the words of the week, but many online, even the most internet savvy don't know what they mean. Let alone what they're being grouped together. Was she grooming baby grunk?

15:19Oh my God. You had you just changed one word in that sentence and it has a very different meaning. Anyway, okay, I'm going to play the sound of this cute little robot that looks like a little mailbox or a little trash can. Trigger warning. Yeah, trigger warning. If you have robots in the car, you might want to skip ahead by like 15, 30 seconds. Oh no. Oh no. So the robot gets spun on its head and then the hot branding torture device. It comes down from the ceiling and is going to like get what would be to us the souls of his feet, which is a very sensitive area, very sensitive. I think about this robot at least once a week. Oh my God. No. No. Good. New acquisitions. All right. Yes, he three PO in our two D.D. Baby. Gunk, is it possible the robot kind of liked it?

16:25I mean, I am wondering. I'm hearing a certain kind of like pleasure through pain. Alporniness in that robot's voice that I hadn't noticed as a kid. It's notable that they programmed this robot to scream, which I mean, you know, I guess I mean, I guess that's what what's the use case for that outside of this? It's not when you're building this robot and putting in the vocal, you know, aspect of it, you're not thinking it's ever going to be getting gunk tortured. Right. So why do you why is that part of it? Why is that part of its, its vocab? I sorry. You just gently corrected me. I it was gunk torture, not grog torture. I've been saying grog I wasn't joking with go that I was just being. Oh, I thought that was no. That wasn't your better. I was just a little bit of a fool. You know, that was one of my worst mistakes. Now I'm really tempted to look up who this bounty hunting robot is. Yeah, good view. I'll see if I let's see her. Stop, but. And I'll tell the story of my extremely humble childhood when juxtaposed with yours,

17:26which is actually not what I'm trying to do here. And I have mentioned this many, many times on the show, but speaking of speeder bikes, one of my most favorite toys that I had as a kid was a pretend speeder bike that was, in fact, I believe a four by four may or may not have been pressure treated with two little two by fours, like nailed to it or maybe screwed into it so I could work them like they were the handles of the speeder bike. And I would sit, this one we lived on, 76th Street in Seattle, I would sit on this four by four. And I would work these little handles and close my eyes and pretend I was on endore. Racing a speeder bike between the redwoods. I did something similar on the back of a big tank we had in the backyard. I would crawl up on this tank. I've told you this before. I think maybe every time you say this. No, we always have the same conversation. I think it was some sort of a heating oil tank that was like outside, you used to, I don't know if you still see them a lot in the kind of country where I grew up, the country

18:27areas that I grew up in the rural areas. It was like a big tank that would sit outside and then it had a couple of knobs on the top where a pipe would connect to it probably when a big truck would come to fill it up at the beginning of winter or something. And I would swing my legs up over that and I would grab that knob as if I was sort of writing a horse. But I looked more like the guy from gentlemen, you can't fight in the war room. Dr. Strange love. Oh, sure. What he's like, he's dropping on that bomb. Oh, yeah. Slim Pickens is his name. Slim Pickens. The robot I might be talking about is ours is IG 11, although when you Google that, IG 11, that's what I thought. Yeah, sure. No, I mean, that's, that's actually how well I see these days when I go in, like, my eye test is that that's here's the one that looks the most like it. Although this is old new Star Wars and by new stars, I mean, from 30 years ago, the first few results look like updated toys or something. Maybe they brought him back for the later movies.

19:29But I'm seeing one here that is an IG 11 from 2021 that looks like my toy. Only this one is gold. It looks like, you know, it's plastic, but it looks like it's gold plated. But that's the closest. So I'm wondering if it's like maybe it has a, because this one also has some sort of a robot bandalier. Yes. Which again, why does a robot need a bandalier just build the storage into the robot itself? You would think, but whatever. I'll bet you it's not quite IG 11. Like maybe I had IG 9 or something. I don't know anything about this, but I'm out there and I'm outside and I'm playing not so much in the yard, but in this little stairwell that steps down into a door that then opens up into our living room. But it's almost like my little stairwell outside my basement here. Luke, maybe it's like two or three steps down from the yard, then there's a door. So it's a small little area, probably a drain right in the middle of this little area. And if I'm standing, if I'm standing as a kid, there's the wall, the retaining wall or whatever is right about eye level. And so I can play with my little dolls like up on the wall, right?

20:32And I'm doing it at. And I'm very afraid of spiders and worms and all of those creepy crawly things. And I see a spider at one point. I go, you know, and I react and however I react. And then I continue to play with IG 9 or whatever. And then I, well, I might have been an earlier version. Might have been. Might have been. The F 11, which those letters come earlier in the alphabet. Anyway, I see a spider. The spider goes away, but it's in my mind. And then I felt a little tickle, a little tickle by my bunghole. And it was probably just my pants rubbing in a certain way or maybe just a little, you know, itch on the skin or whatever it was. But because I was still freaked out about that spider, I was convinced that that spider that I had just saw had just crawled up into my body. And fully there was an old lady to you. Yes, I truly believe this.

21:32And this wasn't, this isn't a bit. I've told this story a lot. I believed for what seems like a long time would felt like the whole summer, although who knows, you know, like kind of looking back at how you measured time as a kid is very different than as an adult. But I feel like it felt like a years went by that I believed spiders were growing in my tummy. I believed this one spider. I didn't know much about the birds and the spiders then. So I thought one spider could, you know, create many more spiders and a really spider love each other very much. When one of them crawls in your bunghole. Yeah. When a spider and a small intestine love each other very much. I really believed for a lot like I would go to sleep at night and think about the spiders in my belly. And I would freak out. Did you ever think of reporting this to your parents? I don't know if I ever did. I think I would remember. I would remember. That's an interesting perspective on like where your level of fear ended and where your

22:32level of not wanting your parents to be mad at you began or something. Or like if you thought a spider family was living inside you, but you didn't report it to your parents. Why wouldn't I? Or did I and I just don't remember? I kind of hope I did because that must have been a wonderful moment. The only person whose memory is worse than mine is my dad's these days. So unfortunately that's not going to get you. Yeah. A lot of little details like this. Just he doesn't quite remember. By the way, can I just mention one thing that I was going to say, yes, remember when you were talking about a fear you had when you were a kid, you'd be in the shower and you would close your eyes and then you would think, oh my God. If I open my eyes, there's going to be an intruder. Anthony Perkins from Psycho is standing right next to me with a knife. And if I open my eyes, I'll see him, which is terrifying. Yes. And then you didn't want to open your eyes. You scared to open your eyes. I didn't have that experience in the shower, but I, you know, at night, if you would wake up the middle of the night or having trouble falling asleep, like I do remember you telling that story yesterday sparked a memory of fear that I had forgotten about a level of pure

23:33terror as you're a little child asleep and you for some reason believe in monsters or that any that there's something lurking in the dark that could get you. I remember and I do remember telling my parents this and they just said, oh, it's nothing just go back to sleep. But I remember I would fall asleep and I would think that there was some monster in the house or something. I don't remember the details of exactly what I picture this creature being, but I just believed in a threat, right? And I would hear its footsteps coming up the stairs. And I would pick my head up off the pillow and I would listen and it would stop and then I'd put my head back down and I would hear it. And of course as an adult, I realized I was hearing my heartbeat, but I believed that the heartbeat I was hearing that I only heard when I put my head on the pillow was the footsteps of something coming to get me. Was it your heartbeat slash the blood flowing through your ear kind of thing?

24:33I think it was just that way. Yeah, yeah. Kind of a more of a heartbeat, just like a, you know, not a wish so much as a heartbeat, like a, you know, every, however, it probably sped up to the more I was afraid, but I, you know, I didn't know that it's my heartbeat. So I don't think my parents ever said, oh, that's your heartbeat. You're just sort of hearing it because your, you know, your head is against your pillow. And then, you know, I would key into it too. Like I don't think about this now when I'm falling asleep, I don't hear my heartbeat and but if you think you hear a little bit of it and then you're a kid and you're trying to not make any noise whatsoever and then you hear it and you hear it. And I think that I realized that what I was hearing was my, my own heartbeat coming to get me some real Edgar Allen Poe energy there. Yeah. Tell tale heart, although I guess that was, you know, he had done a bad thing when why the heart was beating from the floor. My version of that, which again is a, a tried and true TBTL story was I was less afraid of something coming and getting me in the night other than hearing my parents involved in quite a, yeah, that was the big one that was keeping me awake, which was ironic because

25:36I wanted nothing more than to be asleep and not hearing it. And that's when I started blasting talk radio. I don't think I was ever old enough to have that, or I don't think I understood enough about adulthood to ever have that fear when I was a kid. Well, the interesting thing is was I had a neighbor kid, this is when we lived in the victory Heights neighborhood of Seattle kind of over by actually where like the Pinehurst pub is. Yeah. The neighbor kid who was very worldly in that his mom smoked cigarettes and was a hairdresser and had blonde hair, which is just right away blonde hair. Shhh, straight away, yes. Obbs. And she had read him a book about like, you know, the birds and the bees and he told me about this and I said, absolutely not. God puts the baby in the stomach of the woman and this is just a known scientific fact. So there was a period of time where I thought that's what was going on. And then I don't remember the exact moment when I, when I officially conceded the point

26:37or learned that there was something else going on between moms and dads. But whenever that time was, it rocked my world. Do you think that was the kind of siblings I had? Right. It was clearly happening. I mean, I grew up, you know, I remember one time asking my mom where babies came from and Luke, she'd done me dirty. She literally said, you pray, you pray a lot and then God made me pray. That was the version that I heard. Yeah. I mean, literally it was like God puts the baby in your tummy. Yeah. And what really happens? Well, so Andrew, when a spider, it's a bird. We love each other very much. I do think that I, you know, it's 2026 now if anybody who's just curious, do you think today anybody does know what year it is? What do you think about that? We have to listen to all of the other years. We don't know what year it is.

27:39But like, so my, my mom probably said this to me and I, I kind of remember asking, I remember sitting at the kitchen table, it was like daytime, you know what I mean? It wasn't like a serious talk or they weren't putting me to bed and I thought, this is my change. I don't know. I just, something maybe came on the little TV we had in the kitchen or something. I don't know what may be asked, but I do remember her saying that. And you know, I held that truth to be self-evident for a long time. And I think about it now and I just think, man, mom, you really messed that up. Like you should have told me if I was old enough to be asked, what was the harm? What was the harm? Well, I mean, I could give you a list of some of my previous paramorists. I do, I was, I was too sheltered. I was too sheltered in a way that did not prepare me for the world, I think. And I feel that way about money stuff. And again, it wasn't like, the money stuff wasn't that my parents were stingy with me or anything, quite the opposite. But I didn't really have a good grasp of, I think, financial responsibility.

28:41I don't mean that really grew up to bite me in the ass other than it just took me a long time, you know, to kind of learn some very basic things. Same with also, by the way, I would add cooking. I didn't, I don't like the fact that like I was a full-ass adult before I made eggs for myself for the first time, you know, like I just feel like there were certain things that my, my parents took care of me and I think their intentions were really good. But I was overly sheltered in a way that I don't think necessarily set me up for the, for the world of adulthood. Well, I don't know when exactly it was that I realized it wasn't a God putting the baby in the tummy, but there was a point where I looked around the house and I said, we have one bedroom, we have one bathroom. Yeah. There are seven children. God would never want this. You know, maybe God should put another room in the house. Instead of another bun in the oven. If he is, if he is as all powerful as we've been led to believe, could he add an ensuite pray for that? Yes. Dear Lord Jesus, we come to you right now.

29:42We ask that you would add a half bath. And on that note, let's thank some donors. Do it. It feels like only yesterday, Andrew, you were sending me this list of donors. With a teaser, right, for the listeners. Yes, that's right. Thank you for the reminder. All right. Am I going to ruin anything if I start reading them? Remind me of the teaser. Well, we had a listener who in their pronunciation section, their forum, seemed to apply maybe a nickname, which I find very interesting. I don't think that's our first donor. I'm getting the list in front of me right now. Maybe it is. So it's not our first donor, but let's start with our first donor who is Jules Foster of Eugene Oregon. Hey, have you been to Eugene lately? When was the last time I was in Eugene? It's been a minute, but I am a fan. It is Track Town, USA. And I do like it very, very much.

30:42The last time I was there was probably when Becca was running the Eugene Marathon, during which she qualified for the Boston Marathon. And that's why we'll be in Boston in a bit. And we're going to do a TBTL meetup when I'm there. I am a little bit nervous. So I haven't looked ahead to the full list. I don't know if IG 11 is going to be one of our donors today, but IG 8 is on here. I did just text you. I don't know if you can bounce these things. I think I found the 1980 version of the toy that I had. It's similar. I don't remember. This one has two guns and they're both blue. I don't remember the gun being blue, but maybe it was a little bit blue. What was? Maybe this is the exact robot I was telling you about. And you see it is kind of spindly. I don't know if you can see it yet. And it definitely has a look at it. I mean, would you describe that as pill shaped? Yes. Maybe. I had soul-pointed. I'm trying to remember. They must have just been sort of ironically, these may be are the droids we're looking for.

31:42They were just kind of mindless sort of soldiers in a way or something. They didn't have a personality to wait see three PO did or you know, R2D2, I guess did. But yes, I have a vague memory of these guys. Anyway, I think it was just driving me a little bit crazy not being able to find that, you know, something that is incredibly findable online, a Star Wars toy from the 80s. I don't know. That doesn't seem like an online community in my experience. Thank you, Jules Foster. We appreciate you. Thanks also to Alicia Fluffy Nicholas. There it is. Fluffy. And Benson, Arizona, now listen, Alicia. I was mildly hoping that the comedian Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias had become a listener to the show. But if it can't be Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias, I'm glad it's Alicia Fluffy Nicholas. Who's this comedian you speak of? Of whom you speak? He is a very popular comedian who does stand up comedy.

32:43It's not my comedy per se, but he's very Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias. Very big, very popular. I knew a guy named Fluffy. I didn't know him well, but he was a regular at Teddies when I was a regular at Teddies. And he was like, he was a golfer. And I remember, he was like, ah, Fluffy is going to Ireland to golf again. But he was an Irish himself. He was just like, you know, just like this kind of tallish. I remember, kind of, I guess probably maybe kind of good looking guy. He was just like, to me, he was like my uncle Bob, who was a golfer. Like golf seemed to define him sort of even though he didn't talk about golf all that much. He just looked like a golfer. That's really funny because Tiger Woods is caddy for many, many years was named Fluff. I wonder maybe this isn't a coincidence. Maybe you know the guy at Teddies, maybe that's why people started calling him that. I don't know. But this guy's name was Mike Cowan. Mike Fluff Cowan. Is that a possibility? The Tiger Woods's actual caddy was also a regular at Teddies.

33:44I would find that hard to believe. He spent a lot of time there. Okay. It did not. It did not leave enough time for him to also size up Tiger Woods' shot from the fairway when it relates to a low fade as it were. Speaking of Teddies, do you know, I used to say this to you all the time when you used to live in the Seattle and on the occasion that you would be in Seattle and we go to Teddies together, I'd tell you to look for the little piece of graffiti in the bathroom. This is bad idea, Luke. And I still don't know exactly who wrote it or why. But somebody years and years ago, I mean, ever since I've been going to Teddies, somebody wrote way up high along the right along the bottom of the ceiling, but on the wall wrote bad idea, comma, Luke in black marker. And the last time I was at Teddies, maybe about a month or so ago, it was still there. I don't think we can rule out the fact that that might be related to me. I mean, it could be. I mean, it could be. But you know, we've been there.

34:44You've been there more times than I have, but I've been there plenty of times and I've been pretty, I've been enjoying myself when I'm there and somebody may have needed to express themselves in the bathroom about how I was being. Maybe, but it would have been before, if so, it would have been before I was ever going to Teddies because it was there from day one of me walking the door there. Okay. Well, I'm going to go ahead and assume it's not about me then. Probably not. Okay. The first thing I want to do, is to be on people's minds, I don't probably want to be the person that they're writing about in the bathroom. Let's thank Sean Aadon who's in Andrew Walsh. Kettle falls Washington. I was just looking this up yesterday. Why? Well, I saw a house on Instagram in Kettle Falls, Washington. It looked really nice. Oh, I thought you were looking up Sean Aadon yesterday. I would, please. Coming up. That's an overstep. I would never do that. I was looking up Kettle Falls, Washington. I was like, where is that it's up in the very far northeastern corner. It's by callville. Northeastern corner.

35:45Okay. Yeah. So never eat soggy waffles. So is that how you remembered? I was just picturing the state. You have a pneumonic for the directions? No, other than it seems awkward to me. I just always go north, south, west, east. And I just remember being a kid and thinking it should be east should come before west, but it doesn't. But I just kind of think up down north south, that's easy. And then I have to go west east. And it just takes me a little set of capric thing. Like the kind of, you know, like the sign of the cross. Well, isn't there, well, yeah, wasn't there like a thing that the capitals would do that was kind of, did they have a pneumonic device that was related? If so, that wasn't taught to me. But that does sound like something like my friend Paul would know or something like north west, north, south, west, east. This is how we celebrate. Something about glasses. Check your glasses and the, there's something there. Yeah. Did I remember being both the crossing yourselves and the directions and it was somehow Catholic?

36:46I learned never eat soggy waffles. Never eat soggy. So you're going around it like a clock. You're going clockwise. Yeah. Never eat soggy waffles. Yeah, north east, south west. And I have to do that every single time I'm trying to figure out. Like a clock, yeah. Yeah, it's kind of, it's like the, you know, when I do the alphabet, I have to sing it in my head. If it's, you know, if these are letters that are kind of, is in the middle of the alphabet, I've got to do a pretty significant part of the song. Oh, the JKLs will mess you up every time. Or how about element OP? No. What even is that? I don't know if you know. Genevieve and I did a podcast yesterday was episode number 567. And I was very excited about that. It seemed 567. She, I had to say it to her. It didn't even come up on the air. But afterwards, I think Genevieve, this was episode 567. Genevieve, this is 5, Genevieve, 567. On three-part poker, that's a straight. You're right, it is. 567. Yeah. 789.

37:46That's why I risked a derivative. That's why I'm afraid of it. Thank you also to, thanks to, is it Tia? I think so, it says like, like, Ant or On Spanish. Spanish. Tia. Okay. So Tia, Gant in Olympia, Washington. All right. Thank you, Tia. Appreciate that. Appreciate the Pstate Capital. Beautiful place. Yeah. Thanks also to Catherine Waltz in Independence, Missouri. Oh. They must have a big Fourth of July celebration there. I mean, probably the biggest. They should. Think about what must go on in Independence, Missouri. On Independence Day. That's an, I don't know if they break out any bunting. They probably, I secretly threw away some bunting from the garage. I've gotten to a point where I've stopped and heard the bunting from the previous owners of the house. You know what? Bunting is the wrong word here. What do you call the point, like, bunting is specifically where it's a range like a half

38:46moon, right? And it hangs down. That's my understanding of it. This isn't bunting. This was like whatever, like, roll of thin, maybe let's say two and a half inch cray paper that you would, maybe you would, this one was red, but maybe you'd get a roll of red in white and then twist them together and then put them up around like a picnic or a party or something like that. I found an old dusty, unopened roll of red. And I was like, Genevieve probably bought that. Do you know what that's called, by the way? Is it just cray paper or is it? Yeah, I think cray paper. Cray, oh, it's Cray, okay. Oh, that C-R-E-P. Well, that's what I've always called it. Okay, okay. I could be wrong on that. No, that makes more sense, probably, than cray paper. But anyway, yeah, I just found that and I was like, you know what? Genevieve, you say secret because you didn't tell Genevieve. No, because there is a time in my life where I was like, Genevieve, can I throw this away now? I mean, especially with food stuff. Like, basically, we have this whole dance that we do. She'll put something in the fridge. Maybe it's like some leftover ingredient or some half a can of something or whatever. And I'll say, hey, can I throw this away?

39:47She says, no, I'm still might use it and I know she won't. And then I just have to live with it in the fridge and so it starts growing something on it. And then I can say, I'm throwing this away. It's growing something on it. But cray paper doesn't grow anything on it. But I was like, if I asked Genevieve if I can throw this away, the answer will be no. I might need it someday. But also, I thought, well, if that day comes, I'm a four-dollar-in-air. Like, I will buy you more cray paper for four dollars. You know what I mean? Like, how much stuff can you just keep? Do you think you would... If it was blue, would you have been less likely to throw it out? Was it Republican-coded in your mind? I'm actually... That's actually a real question. No, no. It was just... It started by calling it bunting, which made it feel politically kind of coded. Oh, well, bunting isn't... Bunting. It's the American flag. Yeah. Bunting has to be red, white and blue. You know what? I don't know the answer to that, actually. I associated with that, but maybe it doesn't happen. I mean, the bunting is just the shape of it. Yeah, but I mean, maybe I've just mostly seen it. You're right.

40:47There's probably blue bunting. There's probably Easter. You know, I can see it for a year. White bunting. That's yellow and white. I have no idea, but I don't think of this as... I think it's very, very fourth of July coded and maybe like flag day coded. An election day coded. I mean, you're definitely not wrong about that. And the Mariners don't break my heart coded. Because we were talking about this, actually, not that long ago on the show, that the reason that I became aware of the term bunting was because if your team made the playoffs back in the day, they would put out bunting. It was part of the kind of like celebration of your team making the playoffs in baseball. Oh, I thought you were making a joke about the act of bunting at the plate. No, but I also noted that was funny that it was called bunting, and that's a thing you do in baseball. But it used to be that if you got to the playoffs, you got to have bunting. If you swing at a ball, but it doesn't go very far, that's called a crepe paper. That is a crepe paper. They call it a swinging crepe paper. That's what Catherine Waltz of Independence, Missouri calls it. That's right. I don't know what Orlando Burea in Greenville, South Carolina calls it, but whatever he calls it, it's AOK with us because Orlando is another supporter of the show.

41:55Again, I'm liking this distribution. We got Eugene Oregon. We got Arizona. We've got, of course, the great state of Washington. We've got Missouri and then South Carolina. Looking good. Thank you so much, everybody. For supporting TBTL, we could not do this without your help, and that is a true story. Hello, and welcome to Top Story. I was thinking of you yesterday, Andrew, because after I did my TV shoot, I got into a Weimo, which, for the record, are really kind of, you know, these are the robot cars, either the cars that don't have a driver in them. It's funny how quickly something goes from being like the height of elegance to like, oh, I got a shitty Weimo. I got in two Weimos yesterday that smelled like weed. Oh. Two different Weimos that smelled like weed. And now there's sense. So there's like the first Weimos that I ever took, and I think the initial ones were a Jaguar.

42:55Like that was the kind of car, and they were impossibly fancy. I mean, partially because they didn't have anybody driving them, but also just like everything was so nice. Now they also have these like ones that kind of look like a V-Dub bus. Oh, like the electrical, like the electric vehicle. Like the ID bus, but it's similar to that, right? And those are, I also, I've taken three or four Weimos since I've been here because I love them. So now the, when the bus comes, oh my god, it's so cool. You hit this little button. All of the doors open, like in this kind of very, it's hard to describe way, but this very fancy way. All like the sliding doors are all opening for you. That's now the Primo Weimo. I don't think it's even any more money. It's just randomly assigned to you or not. But I had two Weimos yesterday out to the shoot and back that were the old style of Weimo, which I was like, I got this shit again, and they both smelled like weed. That had not occurred to me the correlation between driverless car, who's in a drug use,

43:58or drinking, or whatever. Like I can't go. I'm sure that I would not be allowed just to go in the back of a lift that has a human driver in it with like an open bottle of MD-50, 2020, I should say. And like, you know, they have this little announcement that's like, there are cameras being used for your safety, I feel like to say. So, you know, if I heard that, I probably wouldn't blaze up in there, nor would I have a drink of alcohol, but like, yes, I got in two different Weimos that were just kind of like junk Weimos, which I was like, oh man, this went from being so fancy to like, now it's just another thing in my life, and it's like, there's the good one in the bad one and whatever. But I get in the Weimo, I'm leaving the film shoot, which was in Beverly Hills, and I'm scrolling TikTok. Again, which I do with absolute impunity when I'm in the Weimo. If it's a human driver, I'm kind of, I've had one AirPods in and one AirPods not in, and I'm kind of listening in case they're talking, or you know, maybe I'm having sort of half of a conversation.

45:02When it's me in the robot, it's just fully, I'm just fully scrolling, fully doom scrolling. And I saw something about pizza, and I became obsessed with the idea of having pizza. So that's why you were thinking of me, right? Because if I scroll and I see food in the morning, I'm not satisfied until I, at some point in the day, acquire that food. That wasn't even why I was thinking of you. I then made the Weimo change its route, instead of taking me back to the hotel, I had it drop me off at whatever the best pizza place in Palms was, which is over here on the west side, kind of by Westchester. So I ended up going to this pizza joint, and they had an outside seating area. So I sit down, get me a little salad, I order the smallest pizza that they can sell you, which wasn't really that small. I was like, you guys should have some better system, because everybody who was sitting outside was by themselves. There seemed to be the kind of place where people came, they worked on their laptops, they like, you know, kind of just, it was a solo activity,

46:02but everyone except me outside had a dog with them. And every single one of the dogs was agitated about the other dogs. And every single person in charge of their dog was doing a bad job. And you were thinking about me and my bad dog. No, I was thinking about how conscientious you are about this. Yeah, I am conscientious. I'm a bad dog. I'm all, yeah, I'm really worried about getting in people's way, whether it's myself or my dog or my grocery cart. I was thinking you would not have liked the energy. You might have just decided to take Lucy on a walk and go somewhere else. Every single person had a dog that was kind of on the edge the whole time that would just jump up in bark or try to go for another dog, and then somebody knew would come with a dog. But nobody really was committed to the project of getting their dog to be less annoying, other than kind of going, hey, stop that. Did I? And it felt so Los Angeles to me.

47:03I don't know. Apologies if I already told you this story. It's a short one for a change, but you know me. I don't really know anything about like dogs or dog breeds or anything like that. And, but then you get a dog and everybody's always talking about what kind is involved. So you start to pick up on stuff. Anyway, and I certainly don't know about like various behaviors or whatever. But Veeves and I, I told you we took Lucy to some dog park where she could run around for a while, but then there's a brewery nearby. And we stopped and had like a snack and like a beer and a glass of wine there. We did this actually two Saturdays and a rose and I said, many tradition that lasted two weeks. But anyway, the one day we were sitting there, Lucy was there. She's a puppy. She's got a little bit of energy, but she's mostly behaved. There's another puppy nearby who's also even better behaved, just like kind of sitting under their table. Lucy says hello to that dog. There's I think maybe three, there's definitely three maybe four dogs all in this outdoor area at this brewery.

48:03And they're all just mostly minding their own business and being pretty good. And then some guy came in with two and Luke, I'm not, I'm just like cray paper. I'm not going to get this right. Two shebo eatsos. What's the name? Sheba Inu. Sheba Inu is that though? Yeah, that's the oldest dog breed on planet earth. I did not know that. Did you know that they also just have an energy? Like these two dogs came around the corner. Like some new customer comes in and he's got these two dogs. And yes, they're a little bit yippy. But like if I didn't have a dog on this flight, I wouldn't have really clocked. I'd be like, okay, they're a little bit yippy, but they weren't like, you know, they weren't, I wouldn't call them bad dogs or anything. But as soon as this guy and his two dogs came around the corner, all of the dogs, including Lucy, locked onto them and we're like, like, pheromonelli. Yes, I mean, I mean, knitting something. That's a really, really, by the way, the doge coin is a Sheba Inu.

49:06He says it's a true story. That's a true story. Maybe the rest of the dogs just don't like this crypto bullshit. Or they're on some other, some other kind of crypto coin that they don't like. The doge coin, the original kind of meme coin doge, as sheba, as sheba Inu is the, is the mascot of it now that rings about in his, and I think it's maybe his name was doge or something. Oh, okay. I was wondering if there's something about doge being close to the word dog. But anyway, oh, yeah, you know what? I think you're right about that, actually. Yeah, just like sort of sort of an internet speaker or something. I don't know. I was thrown out there. But anyway, all that is to say, it was, and actually you're right, though, it could be, it could be like almost hormonal, like maybe they were going through heat or something. But I don't think so. I think there was just something about their energy. They came around the corner and all of a sudden all the dogs, I want to say lost their minds for the sake of the story. They didn't lose their mind, but they all got agitated about this, this entrance of these two new dogs. And it's like, wow, it's not unlike people. Like you can walk into a room and really change the culture too. Which tells you that it was those two sheba Inu's.

50:06Yeah, right? And I mean, because of the consistency of the response from the other dogs. It was interesting because Lucy was the first one to clock him and went, made a little, made a little, made a little yippersome thing. And I was like, right away self conscious. And then when all the other dogs were like, yeah, what the hell is going on? I was like, I don't know. I kind of felt bad for these other dogs, but I got to say I also very quickly was kind of like, what's up with you guys? What? Turns out this wasn't Lucy alone. Yeah, this was a group read on the situation. Well, yesterday it was just like, it was so strange because none of the dogs were like horribly behaved. They were just all right on the edge of like when the waiter brought over like a pizza to somebody. Like one of these dogs kind of was climbing up on his knee a little bit. And the guy who was in charge of that dog was like, you know, kind of like half paying attention. And then again, they're just, I think probably people who have dogs like to go to this place because it has outside seating and you're allowed to bring the dog there.

51:06But it just, it felt to me like every dog was kind of being a little bit extra. And every human person in charge of the dog was not annoyed enough or was not riding herd as it were enough on their particular dog, which again felt very Los Angeles to me. And I'm a defender of this city and I love this place. But it just felt like this is such an LA moment. And by the way, these were all designer dogs too. You know what I mean? Like they were all these very beautiful, very like, you know, sort of pure bread dogs of some kind of, you know, important lineage. And then everyone's on their laptops, probably with their graphic design job or whatever. And everyone's like having their, you know, micro brew or their glass of wine. And they want to have this experience and they want their dog with them. And their dog is a little bit poorly behaved, but they're not going to let that get in the way of their experience. There was something about being outnumbered five to one in this that I was just like Los Angeles. Come to the coast, we have some fun.

52:07Is it the type of thing where you also just want, even if they can't fully solve the problems, show a little bit of concern. Yes, you don't want it to be that way. As you can create more havoc by like, or more just of an unpleasant environment if you're just kind of like, you know, freaking out. Yeah, fight. Oh, stop. You know, then you're freaking out and the dog isn't responding well. Then this is kind of like it's adding to the cacophony, but a little bit of just kind of like, hey, hey, hey, buddy, or just being, you know, or just getting up off your ass for a second and saying, okay, I'm going to walk the dog just around the block. See if I can get a little yaya's out before I come back to my neopolitan pizzas. Is that a kind of pizza? It is. Okay. Yeah. I think they served those. It seemed like a type of place you would have outside in LA. It's exactly that I just wanted the people who had the dogs to be showing a little more effort. Yeah. Yeah, just like, you know, there are other humans. It's like human children. Yeah. Although I do, I do enjoy human children. And I'm personally cool with someone's human child coming over and messing with me.

53:09I actually enjoy that. But it was just like, yeah, it just seemed like everybody could have put a little bit more work into. And then I became very stressed because more and more people kept showing up with their own dogs. And then the whole, you know, sort of dog park would go off in its different way. And then that person would get settled and everybody would, by the way, do you think Fido is coming back as a name? I like that name. I was struggling just to come up with a dog name and I didn't want to use it. I mean, that's the default made up dog name. Yeah, that's what I get. Yeah, Fido. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But I think is any, do we have any, are there any Fido's? I'll bet you. Yeah, I'll bet you when naming their dog, their dog Fido in 2026. I love, I love that name. I would, I could have seen, I mean, it does, Fido seems like a male dog name to me, although I don't know where I'm getting that from. But like, Lucy doesn't seem like a Fido to me, but I like the name Fido. And people would say, oh, that's cute.

54:09I feel like I, I, I can't imagine Lucy having another name at this point. But I often get the response from people when I say this in my dog, Lucy, they often say, oh, I have a friend with a dog name, Lucy. Apparently Lucy is a very, very common dog name and I, I feel a little basic. I feel a little basic. My friend James Dammuth had a, not a basset hound, but what's the, what's the dog that's kind of like a basset hound, but not so low to the ground? Like not a beagle, a beagle. Oh, a beagle, okay, yeah. Nice. See, look at you, no one dogs. Where's her bell? James Dammuth had a beagle named Lucy. Oh, sweet beagles. I met a beagle at the hardware store the other day. I didn't have Lucy with me. We're keeping her a little bit closer to home. Yes, we can use that. How's that going by the way? It's, it's, it's all right. She's okay. She's, she's in heat right now for the listener who just started listening today. But we're, let's see here. I think we started tracking this a week ago. So we're one weekend and this could last between two and three weeks.

55:10So we'll see. But so far, so good. But I'm not taking her on little trips to like the, like today, I gotta go to the pet store. Usually that would be a no brainer she'd come with me. But I'm just kind of keeping her out of those kind of places until we get past this. But all that is said, I was at the hardware store just me and there is, I, I heard a dog kind of bark howling in the back of the store. And I was like, I was a full aisle away. And so I couldn't do one of those things. I wasn't like casually passing and saying, hey, can I pet your dog. But I saw the dog and it was a beagle. And I was like, oh man. They're a pound dog. They're a hounds and they're so, they're, that's their reputation, right? And I kind of felt bad for this guy. But I also, I am now in a place in my life. And again, keep in mind, I didn't have a dog with me. But when I just clock somebody else who seems like a responsible dog owner, but the dog is just being a dog. Like it gives, I always feel like, okay, not every dog is perfect. Like I just feel like I walk around the world and all I just see is these impeccably behaved dogs. Because I'm only seeing them for like five seconds of their life, right?

56:10I hope that my anecdote, my unbelievably fascinating anecdote from yesterday, I hope it's not making you feel any kind of way about Lucy because like, no, no, no. Because I think you and Lucy would have been great in this environment. I think these people were not having enough, they weren't caring quite enough. But I don't want you to think that like, I bet you anything that people love Lucy and Lucy is a benefit to any environment she's in. I don't want you to feel like too much stress. No, I appreciate that. And I don't take anything from your story that I'm not already putting on myself. It's more of just an exploration of like my anxiety about how I behave in public. Now I'm responsible for an extension of myself in a certain way that I have less control over. But I feel like I should have more control over because that's a responsible of a dog owner, whatever. I think generally speaking, we're in pretty good shape. I think we're also just lucky that she's a good nature to dog. You know what I mean? Like I don't know if she's a well trained dog at this point, but she's a good nature dog, which really helps. So I mean, she's not going to growl at you if you get close to her bone or something like that.

57:11She could get her a bone. Well, she's invited to Palms, California. Oh, but can I tell you about this beagle? So I saw this beagle all the way across the hardware store and I was like, I kind of want to say hello, but it would be weird. I'd have to make a real track to like track down this dog, right? But then coincidentally, and I can't remember its name. And why did I come back to the story considering the point of it is just I got a bet of dog. But I was so I felt so lucky. I wanted to like, you know, pay at the robot cash register thing. And coincidentally, the beagle and its owner showed up right as I was showing up. And so and luckily he was having some issue with his credit card or something like that. So the perfect crime. Yeah. So while he's like talking to the person who's sort of like, you know, patrolling that area, I'm just like, can I pet your dog? And he's like, yeah, and he's a little bit distracted. Oh, that was it. And she had a really, really cute name. And anyway, but I when I do see like what is generally speaking a good dog and a good dog owner relationship, but the dog isn't absolutely perfect, it's sort of like it goes back into my bank a little bit of like,

58:15yeah, sometimes dogs are going to be dogs and then that's okay. This dog wasn't like, you know, being a monster. And you think it just barked a little bit in the store because it's a beagle. And beagles make that, as you said, that baying sound. Yes, that's good. I'm glad that you're putting that in the sort of, you know, in the category of like ways that Lucy can be sometimes too. Here I go once again with the email every week. I hope that it's from a female. Oh, man, it's not from a female. All right. Uh, females or emails before we ski dattle today. You know, I don't really have any. I guess just kidding. I've been trying to get some voice message. One job today and it was to do no work on the show and I have satisfied that requirement. Well, tell you what, before I get to this toilet one which I haven't heard yet, I do want to play this one that I have been talking about for weeks now. And it's a, it's a shorty, but I think it raises a interesting question. But I think I have an answer to it and you might as well take it away. Listener, Ryan. Hey, this is Ryan and Tennessee.

59:15And I don't think this is related to anything that you've talked about recently. But I thought about it frequently when I'm driving back to work. I'm back to work for my lunch break and I'm eating an apple. And I'll drive past an open field like tall grass sort of thing. And when I'm done with my apple, I throw my apple core out the window and I throw it into that field on the side of the road. And I usually do it and I make sure that no one's watching because I don't want it to be perceived that I'm littering. But I guess my question, and I'm calling you because I feel like you might have an opinion about it and discuss it. I want to know if I am littering. Is it okay that I'm doing that? I have kind of misdealing about it, but I still do it. I'm done it with banana peels too. It's organic matter so I feel like it's okay. But just curious what your thoughts are. With banana peels is important to throw it right in the middle of a sidewalk. And a poke that somebody is walking by with a hand on some marbles. Yes, exactly.

1:00:16And have two workers or if you see someone rolling a paint of glass at the end of a pig. A guy who's putting the last orange. A purple, a pure and native orange. Outside of an open air market. The apple thing, we've talked about this before, Luke, in the context of gum, which I think is a little bit different. But this reminds me of that conversation because you were kind of spinning your gum and like, you know, areas where people wouldn't be stepping or even driving or walking but into bushes or whatever. And I think somebody told you, I don't know about that, right? And that conversation always sticks in my head. Well, I'm in agreement with the listener that organic matter like an apple core or a banana peel thrown into a field. I think is a victimless crime. I agree about keeping an eye on no other cars being around though because of both perception and on the super, super off chance that it catches a gust of wind or part of that apple or even some seeds hit the car behind you or something. It could look even worse. Definitely for me, the perception thing like I would not want someone thinking I was throwing, you know, I don't know a piece of plastic or something into the field.

1:01:19You might even be Johnny Apple seating. Yeah. Listen to Ryan. You might be, you know, fertilizing that field with apples that may grow and feed a family for years to come. So, or a banana plant? What's a banana tree? What do bananas grow on exactly? I mean, I know I'm thinking I'm calling the banana tree. I think so. Is it a tree? I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen a banana growing, but I also don't think it, I mean, I think you're joking, right? Because obviously a peel isn't going to grow a banana plant. No, but maybe there was a little banana left in there or something. I don't know. Banana's work. I have a whole bunch of bananas growing inside me right now. That's all I know. I wonder if I could grow bananas at the Madrona Hill studio. We are in growing zone eight and a half, I believe. I bet you it's not nearly, you know, temperate enough. But to the listener, I totally, I'm totally fine with you throwing organic waste away into a field.

1:02:20But the gum thing, I have become actually more careful with the gum. I try to throw it in a garbage can. I will only throw it into the, you know, wider world if it's like a very big, big hedge or bush. Yeah. Like, I think before I was being a little cavalier because I sort of considered gum to be on the organic matter spectrum. But it's also gross. And like, I don't want to see anyone else's chewed up gum. Yeah. You know, in like an ash tray or a plant or something like that. So I'll only toss the gum somewhere where it's like known will ever find it. Yeah, certainly not an ash tray or a plant or I wouldn't, but there are like areas even in the, you know, most urban areas. There's like stuff like ground cover, you know, you're passing like a bank or, you know, some sort of an office building. Oh, you mean St. John's Wart, which I recently planted as, oh, is that like the regret that he'll cover? Yeah, it's something like that, you know. So for me and apples, I mean, you, the car thing adds another element to it.

1:03:22But I also, you know, we're just getting to the end of the season that I love so much when you're going on a little walk around the neighborhood. And there's apple trees, especially in this, you know, this part of the country. There's just a lot of apple trees in various neighborhoods. You just grab an apple from the tree and you eat it, but then you're left with this apple core, right? And like, I can't tell you how many times I was walking to the train when I used to take the train to get to ball games. Like, maybe this time of year, I eat one of these apples off a tree and then I'm walking and I'm like, other people are walking around me, but can I just throw this apple core into this pretty lush, you know, ground cover bush area that's at the bottom of somebody's property, but nowhere near there, you know, maybe at the side of their driveway or something. It's totally, it's not even a crime. I was going to call it like a victimless crime, but I feel a sense of guilt or I certainly want to make sure that nobody sees me doing that, whether they know it's an apple or not, because they're like, because then I got to ask myself, well, if I had that outside of my house, and I'm a little protective of my property, would I love seeing people just throwing apples into the shrubbery around my house, although, you know,

1:04:28don't you think if it was into a part of the shrubbery that you were never going to see it would bother you as much? I mean, also my attitude when I came. That's what that's my attitude. And honestly, it's not, it's a core. You know, it's a core of a small apple that I pulled off of a tree. It's not that much. It's going to decay pretty quickly as you get into the wet season of Seattle, you know, so I don't have an issue with that. And also, I was even just thinking like, when you are in charge of like the area around your house, like you get used to maintaining it. Like I was saying, like, oh, I might not like seeing somebody walk by and throw an apple core into my bushes, but you know what? I was literally doing yesterday. I had my little pincers on a stick and I was going around and picking up potato chip bags and all kinds of litter that is much, much worse than an apple core in a bush. I'll tell you that much. Did you know that fall is here, Andrew? And you know how I know that? The Waymo told me, let me play this for you. Heading to hotel, June, West, LA.

1:05:29The sun sets earlier. Burns are heading south and pumpkin spice is back. Happy first day of fall. Wow. How Johnny cab is that? That is very Johnny cabby. I'm going to try to get myself up pumpkin spice latte this season. I say that every season. I had one. I've only had one in my life. And it was like, I don't know, five years ago or something. I mean, I were waiting for a table to open up at a restaurant. So we went across the street to the bookstore that had a, there's a Barnes and Noble that had a Starbucks in it. I was like, I guess I'll try one of those. And it was good. I don't know if I've ever had one. I mean, you know, it's very sugary. You know, like you, but it was yummy. Yeah, it was good. By the end that combination of caffeine. I think in sugar had me a little bit probably a little bit jittery, but a little bit looking for a toilet like our next voicemail. Oh, yeah. I don't know if it had me looking for a toilet, but I appreciate the transit.

1:06:32I was just trying to transit. No, you just were sick of me talking about that pumpkin spice. No, but I'm going to try to get one this year. I'll tell you how it goes. And anyway, yeah, so we did set this up at the beginning of the show, but we got a voicemail from a listener who did not leave his name on the first voicemail. I don't know if he's going to leave it on this follow up, but he said that he's a truck driver and he's got a lot of very specific stops to make. And there's one stop that he makes every single day. And when he was making that stop a few weeks ago, he had to go to the bathroom asked to use the restroom and ended up clogging the toilet. And then said to the person who runs the company that he was stopped at, hey, I clogged your toilet. Do you have a plunger in the guy said, no, and he said, but don't worry about it. Just get on your way. We'll take care of it. And again, I sort of felt, even though it wasn't explicitly said, I felt sort of the deadline pressure of our caller in that situation. Because you would mention Luke that you were like, I would do anything. I would quit my job. I would try to stick. I would break that up. I would do anything other than let somebody else clean up the toilet that I clogged, right?

1:07:34Not to shade the listener, but yes, I would quit my job as a truck driver. And dedicated my life to unclogging that toilet. Then I would have gone to website school, which is something John Melkovich says in some movie that I think is so hilarious. Go to website school. All right. So anyway, so we said we want a follow up. Oh, I know. So then the listener said, well, so what should I do? I have to show up at this business again. You know, tomorrow should I show up with some sort of gift to apologize? I think your suggestion, Luke, was a golden plunger with a bow on it. You had a nice addition to that, which was also a non-joke gift. And then also something that you can enjoy. Think of alcohol if they drink or whatever, but like the plunger as the joke, but then something nice also as the gift. Maybe even a nice big, what about a nice big candle? What about those are kind of expensive and also sort of related. You could put the candle on the bathroom, but you don't have to. You know, something like that. Anyway, okay. So we want to know what is this truck driver going to do to make up for this clogged toilet the next time he has to roll into this business?

1:08:37Hey, Dom. He's the toilet plunging truck driver calling back. I left you a message today after the plunging incident about what happened the next day. But when I went back and I'm leaving a place right now, but I went back the next day. Nothing was said. I didn't have any presence. I've gone there every day since the original voicemail. This guy's prepared to let that sleeping dog lie. I think we both, I think I will too. So no gold toilet plungers involved. All right. So just like I've been there before where you have really good intentions within the moment passes and then it's just too late. Yeah, and then you don't want to bring it back up. It's like if we've all if we're all just going to pretend like this didn't happen. Yeah. Let's keep pretending. Yeah. Because now for this person to show up with the golden plunger is now reanimating the situation. It's like yeah, it's putting energy back into it and we want less energy in the situation. Yeah, the moment has the moment has passed. But I would say consider just having a golden plunger in the truck as part of your rig with a bow.

1:09:49Yeah, actually you just need a regular plunger because then you can just take care of your own business and you don't have to leave it again. You don't have to do the gift. Yeah, yeah, just you know, B.Y.O.P. Let's give away golden plungers real golden plungers for the TBT. How do you know they're going to be a boy? And the golden. What is it? Golden hen. The golden. Golden. Donut and the golden hen. I know what you're thinking. How do you know they're going to be boys? I love her. All right, Luke. We got our closure on we did. Now we know the name of the person who left the voicemail. It's the toilet clogging guy or whatever it calls itself, which is your reputation. I'm going to say that's your reputation. That's going to do it for today's episode. But we're going to be right back here tomorrow with more imaginary radio for all of you. So please do stop on by for that. In the meantime, have a great Wednesday. Take care of yourselves. And please remember to amount to tall and good luck to all.