Ladders. They can be your stairway to heaven or your ticket to hell. Every year

clueless adults get up high on ladders while high on beer, wine and other

mind-altering liquors. Sure our society makes light of ladders. Champion ladder

climbers grace our every cereal box and ladder themed entertainment keeps our

children and stitches. But in real life, these climbing machines can be killing

machines.

Hey Julia, can you say TPPL?

I'm doing the work. I'm baby stepping. I'm not a slacker.

Look man, you know your stuff but you're like a crazy volcano. You have to show me

you can bring it down or not. I'll bring it down a thousand notches if I have to.

Okay, we done with the business part. I want to start the clown portion of the

meeting.

All right, hello. Good morning and welcome everyone to a Wednesday edition of

TBTL. Here we go again. The show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name is

Luke Burbank. I am your host coming to you from the Nest Broadcast Center

high in the sky above Portland, Oregon. I'm so excited about this show. It is

weird. It is beautiful. It has a plot that goes in fascinating directions.

And whereas yesterday we were under the very wet thumb of what was described as a

two thousand mile long river of water that was suspended in the sky and slowly

divesting itself of that water onto our heads and bodies here in the Pacific

Northwest today. It is just a gorgeous, mostly sunny Wednesday morning. Oh my

huh, it's just beautiful. And I tell you what, it's putting some wind in my

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