All right. Level level. We're rolling on this. Hi everybody. Welcome to a Friday afternoon

edition of TBTL. This is episode 1,999 Part 3 in a collector series. I don't know when

you, the listeners are hearing this, but as Andrew and I are recording it, we are a mere

hours away from the TBTL 2000th episode. Walshki, how you feeling?

I was wondering if I held my hand close enough to the microphone if you could hear it sweating.

I don't think so though. You know, I'm feeling good, but it's, you know, if I were to tell

you that I'm not a tiny bit nervous, I think I'd be lying to you.

What is your greatest hope for how the 2000th episode, tomorrow night, the Neptune Theater,

which your greatest hope for how it's going to go and what is your greatest fear for

how it might go? I will tell you what my biggest kind of fear is and I don't know

fear is too strong of a word, but it's what I've been thinking about all week as you and

I and the other people involved have been having conversations about the show and what

we're doing is, and I'll bet you you'll associate with this is awkward moments. I don't

want there to be awkward moments. I want it all to feel smooth. I want to, I want to,

I want to feel like I'm having fun at the time and that everybody else is having fun as

well, but you know how there are times like forget the audience, trust me, forget the audience.

That's our, that's our motto here on TVTL, TVTL, forgetting the audience for 2000 episodes.

Just in general, when you're doing live radio or something, we try to get rid of any awkward

moment like me looking for the word right there. Like that's why you invented something on

the Old Ross and Burbank show that we called audio spackle. So if we're doing a quiz or something

like that to always have music underneath us and kind of give everything a good sense of rhythm

and and little pauses in the conversation don't seem like they're awkward pauses because I feel

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