Hey there and welcome to another episode of TBTL, the show that's probably too beautiful to live.

My name's Luke Burbank.

I'm your host right over there.

It is the longtime producer of the program, Jen Andrews.

Hey, you, Jen.

Hi, Luke.

Well, it's been quite a week for us here.

We've battled through illness. The announcement that Andy Rooney is going to...

Actually, that was the only thing that helped me get through the week, probably. We're going to talk about that on today's show. We're also going to talk about the idea of letting living people show up on stamps.

The Postal Service will try anything at this point.

Yeah.

I think is what it comes down to.

They're thinking about flavoring stamps, too.

So if you lick them, you know, and in fact, they will be considered a food product.

I mean, they're just blue skying, really.

No bad ideas over at the post office.

We'll discuss that.

But first, we saw an article in Time magazine this week about parents and the fact that how it doesn't matter how much they tell their kids that they don't have a favorite.

They secretly do if I guess that would be in multi-child families.

It's presumed that if you're an only child, you're the favorite.

It's pretty bad, pretty bad news if you're the only child and you're not the favorite.

But in multi-child families, the parents always end up having a favorite.

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