You have been told to follow your dreams, but what if it's a stupid dream?

For instance, Stephen Colbert of 25 years ago lived at 2015 North Ridge with two men and three women in what I now know was a brothel.

He dreamed of living alone, well, alone with his beard. In a large barren loft apartment, lots of blonde wood, wearing a kimono,

with a futon on the floor and a samovar of tea constantly bubbling in the

background doing Shakespeare in the street for homeless people.

TBTL.

From the comfortable confines of Oscars Lounge at the base of Queen Anne Hill here in Seattle, this is a Monday afternoon edition of TBTL.

My name is Luke Burbank.

Right over there is Jen Andrews.

Jen, are you already feeling like I am slightly embarrassed to be talking into this tiny tape recorder in an otherwise empty restaurant?

It's only a matter of time before the bar staff comes over and asks us if everything's okay.

I'm not, all I can think about is Saturday night, so I'm kind of immune to other worries.

Now, the reason we're at Oscars today is because it is very snowy here in Seattle, and we were

worried, although it turns out that in between the time

when we made the plan to meet up here and when we actually met up here, all of the snow evaporated.

Right, but I'm glad that we actually stuck with our plan, because usually we then start trying

to, you know, fix it and change it. I'm proud of us. So we are walking distance from Jen's place.

That was the idea.

And it is actually going to apparently get icier and snowier in the next couple of days.

So we'll figure this stuff out one way or the other.

As Jen mentioned already, we've got kind of one thing and one thing only on our mind.

And that would be the TBTL 1000th episode, which is coming up this Saturday night

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