Tbtl- Too Beautiful To Live

Luke and Andrew each bought special doohickeys this week to help them reclaim their analogue pasts. Plus, Megan Markle’s dalliance with podcasting might have been even less authentic than we thought.

Andrew has important work emails to send, but is worried about sending them on a holiday. Luke had a wonderful Father’s Day during which he tried so damn hard not to cry. 

Luke finally watched My Dinner with Andre last night and offers his long-overdue film review. He also recaps the horrible feeling of almost losing his cat, Bubbles, the other day.

Luke has a quibble with the organizers of an event he’s MCing, and he worries that his complaint makes him unlovable. Andrew has a quibble with the way Seattle measures his water usage, and he worries that his complaint makes the show unlistenable. 

Andrew has a story that isn’t so much about toilets, but about the human condition, and how people can change. But it’s also about toilets. Plus, beleaguered Oakland A’s fans stage a “reverse boycott” that is both uplifting and saddening.

Luke and Andrew announce the details for the upcoming 4000th episode, even though they were apparently the last to know that tickets are already on sale. They also watch an old episode of Super Password in honor of Pat Sajak retiring from Wheel of Fortune. Click here to purchase your tickets to TBTL’s 4000th episode live at Seattle’s Neptune Theater, Saturday, July 29th!

Luke and Andrew discuss laundry baskets, beer koozies, and public radio promotion schedules. That’s it. That’s the show.

The new movie about Flamin’ Hot Cheetos is getting some good reviews. The problem is, it’s all based on lies.

A lawyer is in trouble for using ChatGPT to create legal documents that were filled with made-up facts, and the US Supreme Court is siding with Jack Daniels in a case over a poop-themed dog toy.

Luke’s mom was really cutting it up on the family text chain today. Luke and Andrew also discuss a fascinating (14-page!) story about the past, present and possible future of the Guinness Book of World Records.   Photo of Guinness Book of World Records by goodfriendo, licensed under CreativeCommons.

Luke and Andrew weigh-in on Apple’s latest doohickey, which the company unveiled this week. Plus, listeners provide some amazing info on the foul ball Luke grabbed in the Kingdome as a youth.

When a New York Times reporter sits down to interview Luke and Andrew’s favorite comedian Tim Robinson, things go about as smoothly as you’d expect. (Which is to say, not smoothly at all. But it’s super interesting!)

Genevieve joins the show to discuss her love of advice columns and to judge some recent submissions to Ask Amy and Miss Manners. She also talks about her long-forgotten  novel and why she eventually cut Andrew’s character out of it. 

Luke is baffled and incensed over an airport gift shop rule. Andrew is wrestling with a new editorial policy. And a listener helps find a special, U2-related moment in the TBTL archives. 

Andrew does exactly what all his years of cybersecurity training have taught him not to do. Plus, Netflix has officially started cracking-down on password sharing. 

Andrew heard some of the most compelling radio of his life yesterday, it just happened to be during a Mariners Broadcast. And Luke reports on his boat-towing journey across Washington. 

Luke is nervous about his plans to tow his boat across the state today behind a big U-Haul truck.

Luke and Andrew discuss their plans to broadcast the upcoming TBTL-a-Thon from Luke’s mom’s basement. They also review a list of America’s “Most Trusted Brands.” And Andrew wants everyone to know that he cleaned his garbage bin yesterday. With a hose. 

Luke and Andrew try very hard to talk about the upcoming plans for the TBTL-a-Thon, but boy do they get distracted easily. But the important thing is that you mark your calendars for the 4000th episode, live in Seattle, on Saturday, July 29th. Also, Ron Disantis’ own announcement yesterday went even worse than his most vitriolic rivals could have possibly hoped.  Photo from the Cleveland International Air Show 2018 by Erik Drost

A young woman found a couch on the street and documented her process of rehabbing it on Tiktok. Then the criticism started pouring in…including some finger-wagging from NPR. Plus, Andrew learns something very personal about a struggling baseball player, and Luke stumbles on a familiar sound in his Airbnb.  The joke at the beginning of today’s show comes to us from Madison Sinclair on TikTok.