5/5/26 - Taco Bell Funeral in West Seattle, Flat Tires, Mother's Law, and More!

Tanner and Friends ride this Cinco de Mayo show like a full-on PNW variety hour: pothole rage, flat-tire war stories, viral West Seattle Taco Bell grief, and another impossible Headline in a Haystack win for Dancing Danielle.Tanner opens with a quick history refresher on Cinco de Mayo—Puebla, not Mexican Independence Day—then dives into Need to Know News with Tacoma’s “Pothole Palooza” repair blitz, a Met Gala protester who jumped barriers to target Jeff Bezos on the red carpet, and a health update from Dolly Parton, who canceled her Las Vegas residency but promises to come back “like an old classic car” once she’s fully restored and finishes her Broadway musical about her life. Listeners then jump in with the worst places they’ve ever gotten a flat tire—on I‑5 heading to Garth at the Tacoma Dome, on Highway 2 in Snohomish, on the way to a job interview that turned into a coffee-soaked disaster, and in the 167 HOV lane—while Tanner explains that Washington’s rough roads and winter freeze–thaw cycles give us some of the highest tire turnover in the country and make Tacoma’s pothole push feel overdue.Good Vibes sprinkles in tiny wins like finally emptying a week-old laundry basket, filling up before the gas light comes on, and parents watching kids run through sprinklers from a lawn chair, then zooms into a standout story about an Ohio mom who found a handmade Mother’s Day card tucked inside a used parenting book and launched a viral social media search to reunite the crayon-covered note with the mom it was meant for. Minute to Win It crowns a new champion when Sarah from Tumwater goes 5-for-5 on questions about Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase, Highway 410 to Rainier, Sam Hunt’s “Body Like a Back Road,” the seven continents, and the Outlet Collection’s former “Supermall” name in Auburn, earning Kacey Musgraves tickets and an on-air “crown.”The show then detours into wonderfully ridiculous local culture with a funeral in West Seattle for a Taco Bell that closed in 1991, organized by artist Sunday Nobody and complete with bagpipes, a crying contest, a 21-bell salute, a dove release, black-clad mourners, and a granite headstone that took 10 pallbearers to carry to the shuttered location. Facebook Marketplace Price Is Right returns with Claire and Dancing Danielle bidding on a gasoline-powered “off-grid” laptop in Kent listed at $850, a box of 2,500 Taco Bell sauce packets in Frederickson for $200, and a $10 mystery garbage bag of “baby toys” in Chehalis, while debating which bizarre item they’d actually take home (the hot sauce packets win on shelf life, if not on price tag).Headline in a Haystack hits “Dumb Crimes, Simple Motives” with three options—an Ohio grape theft, salmon stolen from a backyard smoker, and a Florida woman breaking into a home for one Dr Pepper—while Tanner literally checks the studio for phones to prove nobody’s cheating before Danielle pushes her streak to 19 straight wins by correctly picking the Dr Pepper break-in. In honor of Mother’s Day, Tanner closes the loop by asking listeners about the funniest or most over-the-top punishments their moms ever handed out, from jalapeño juice on a “secret” cigarette to push-mower acreage as discipline, then shares his own “lunch duty” consequence helping at his mom’s nursing home—finishing with another run through Tacoma’s Pothole Palooza and that reassuring Dolly Parton health updateSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.