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 the background, doing Shakespeare in the street for homeless people.

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

Siley embarrassed to be talking into this tiny tap reporter 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. Usually we didn't start trying to 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 iceier 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 at the Neptune

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