Hello, nice, nice, how was the flight. Okay, what gator you at or whatever pickup spot? Okay, all right, I'll be there and we're like five, five, ten minutes away. See you in a minute, bye.

T-B-T-L!

So I'm pulling up to zone one here looking for a bearded man in a far too large button up shirt. There is with no beard.

Andy Walsh. Maybe I should hold that microphone while you drive the car. I got one hand for the car and one hand for the award-winning podcast that is about to ensue. Hey man, hey, how are you doing? Good, good. I have so much to ask you about, but I guess just to get first things out of the way first. Welcome everybody to a Thursday afternoon edition of T-B-T-L coming to you from the pickup area of SeaTac International Airport.

In episode 1870 and a collector series, my name is Luke Burbank. I am your host, joining me as always, although this time in the flesh, in the non-bearded flesh.

A lot of flesh, a lot of flesh, right? A lot of face. No, it's a good, it's a good face. It's a handsome face. It's not a handsome face. You don't have to, I feel like a lot of people are having to have uncomfortable conversations with me about my face lately.

Listen, it's what it is. You don't need to fall asleep or pretend like it's okay. It's not okay, but it's my face and we don't have to belabor it.

More on that in a minute. I want to mention your name is Andrew Walsh and you flew up here from Los Angeles, California today. How was the flight? It was great. The last thing I did before I saw you here was sit in the pilot seat of the airplane.

Did they came out and got you and walked you up to the cockpit? I was heading out, you know, shuffling up the aisle like everybody else and then the flight attendant stopped me and said, hold on a second, we need to see you in the cockpit. This is a true story, but I'm leaving some details out.

Would you like me to start at the beginning or do we have business at the top? No, no, no. This is just moved to the top of the list of things I want to hear about right now.

Okay, so let's start at the beginning when I'm actually still on the tarmac back in Los Angeles. Do you want me to hold the microphone? If you would feel more comfortable. Well, I mean, I don't know. I just want to make sure that you're safe. Are you safe?

Everything is totally under control. Earlier when I called you was a less great system because I was holding the telephone and driving and holding the microphone. That was not good. This is fine. We're in good shape. I need to control this because if you're saying something and I have a brilliant thought,

as I often do, I need to be able to whip the microphone right back over here and eat it. Nothing sexual about what I just said, by the way. Not at all, not at all.

So I'm on the tarmac in Los Angeles, California, and we're getting ready to take off and then, you know, every now and then you'll hear the flight attendant say a name over the loudspeaker.

And it's never been me in my life. And this time they're like, if passenger Andrew Walsh is on board, please hit your, you know, call button right now.

So I'm like, all right. And what is going through your mind? Because I mean, usually with your beard, I'd assume that you were on a no fly list, but to your babyface, babyface Walsh today. Yeah, no. And then so I hit my button and a flight attendant comes up to me and says, sir, that is too much face.

And I said, no, but I got this special dispensation from the TSA. And they're like, sir, that no. So flight attendant comes over. I'm like, am I in the wrong seat? And I like kind of give her my boarding pass. And she's like, no, I don't think so.

Can I have your boarding pass for a second? I'm like, I guess what's going through my head to answer your question is I just, you know, I had to fly standby a lot when I was a younger person. And I felt like I was, I was nothing was secure until wheels were up.

As I like to say, like, I always felt like I could get bumped off a flight until the very last minute. So I'm kind of thinking like, well, this is a real flight. I'm not flying standby. Like I deserve to be on this plane, like anybody else.

So they take my boarding pass. They go up to the front. And then they come back with a package for me. Okay, you're reaching into your, your little backpack here. What do you think of? If, if then they come over to you and they hand you, do you want to describe this? What?

It's a Manila envelope. It's, you know, sort of standard. It's bigger than a regular mailing envelope. But like the kind of thing you'd get your college rejection letter in. Well, I don't mean you. I mean one could hit is true. Kent State. They only allow the best. And it says Andrew Walsh 26 C on it. So that's my seat. But the way it's folded up. Like it really felt like kind of a espionage sort of situation or maybe a walking paper situation.

What are your, what are your seat mates thinking? Because I've never, have never experienced somebody getting paged over the intercom of the plane. And then someone bringing them a nondescript package. Like did the people look at you? Like, either, wow, this guy's a terrorist or this guy's baller status. Well, the woman sitting directly to my left didn't speak a word of English. And so she was. So I was kind of helping her with some other things as how she get on the plane. That sounds like a no fly list red flag all the way. Right. I was out now. I should

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