I left Chicago, because there's a lot of gang problems and violence.

I did not know they had gangs in Oregon.

They are not scary or effective.

But they try really hard.

And I ran into a gang on the Oregon coast,

and I don't like to be racist.

But it was a gang of blackbirds.

A real murderer's room.

And I dealt with them just like the gangs in Chicago.

I just puffed my chest out, knuckled up,

and said, you f**king like Gini's great married mothers.

And I ran away.

That's what TVTM.

Welcome one and all to a Tuesday afternoon edition of TBTL.

This is the show that just might be too beautiful to live.

My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host.

Andrew Walsh is here as well.

I am out of town this week.

And so what we are doing is playing you some of our very favorite

interviews and conversations from the course of the last year or so.

Today we arrive at a conversation we had with Mr. Ron Funches.

Now you, Andrew, were the first one to turn me on to the work of Ron Funches.

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