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Talking about you and me, and the game people play

Oh, the games people play now.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to a Monday edition of the TBTL Winter Games.

My name is Luke Burbank, right over there my friend, Andrew Walsh, who...

I guess as this is getting out into the world, you are, what, day three or four of your trip to the Grand Canyon and I'm somewhere in the greater Corpus Christi area.

Maybe I've even found that beach where Andy Dufrein and Morgan Freeman's character are hanging out and dipping my feet in the hopefully somewhat warm waters of the Gulf.

They're building boats. I don't know if they're building boats. Sanding boats. Which checks out, by the way, people are just having a boat, bringing their boats to them. They're a sanding operation. A lot of people think that they're a boat building operation. This is a hobby.

But no, actually that is, they never, they didn't make the sequel. They wrote the script with the sequels all about their boat sanding business.

Yeah, it's called the sand, the sand shank redemption.

I almost got there. Oh, man, I'll still write it down as a possible show title. Hey, this is probably not interesting, but I do want to say we're talking, I believe last week as we're doing these shows that you and I are sharing a Google Doc right now with all of our notes in it for these holiday shows.

And people familiar with Google Docs know that if you log in anonymously, I guess no matter who logs into the Google Doc, they'll indicate that somebody is in the Google Doc with you, but if they don't know your name, it'll assign an animal to you.

Like, I don't know. Do I look like an animal to you right now? Or because I am logged in as you are, I don't even know what that thing is that is your icon for so many things.

It looks like a box that has a little handle on it and then two dots, so it's like a smiley face box. What's the origin story of that?

You know what it is. And I want to come back to what animal you're appearing as. I can't even see myself on here, but I was anonymous jackal the other day.

Yeah, now you're anonymous e-free, which I didn't even know was a thing.

I-F-R-I-T. I-F-R-I-T also spelled E-F-R-E-E-T, according to the internet, is a powerful type of demon in Islamic mythology.

And actually, you have a little demonic icon for whatever reason. I don't see that on my side. Oh, because I don't have access to edit this.

This is, this is a good place to start it.

But, but it's weird. I thought jackal was unsettling the other day. You'd think if Google's going to assign you a random avatar, they wouldn't go with a demonic character from the Middle Ages.

Would you say that you are not a powerful, malevolent supernatural being, because that's what encyclopedia Britannica classifies.

I am e-free out of those four things. Yeah, and everybody can figure out what they are. Let me give you the quick backstory on what my little logo is.

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