#4375 The Keurig Of Bird Houses
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Luke and Andrew each celebrate an anniversary today, which sends them down a memory lane that is perfect for losing any new listeners who may be checking out the show after hearing Luke's story on This American Life this weekend. They also talk about old salad bars, cold restaurants, French-speaking hummingbirds, and personal thermostat preferences.
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| 0:00.0 | I like it when I go traveling. I like to have a cell phone because it's really important to have a cell phone, |
| 0:04.0 | especially when you're going to pretend like you're a business person. And I'm a business person too. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm a business person. I have pens. |
| 0:13.0 | I have a checkbook, okay? And that's what I like to do. I like to go, like when they have a conference in the hotel, |
| 0:20.0 | I like to go down and mingle my cell phone, |
| 0:22.2 | pretend like I'm there for the... |
| 0:24.1 | Yeah, uh-huh, yeah. |
| 0:27.1 | Can you believe that they let me out on bail? |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.3 | Yeah, manslaughter. Can you believe? |
| 0:33.3 | No, I did it. No, I did it. |
| 0:35.7 | Anyways. |
| 0:38.3 | Uh-huh, uh-huh. No, I did it. Anyways. Uh-huh, uh-huh. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah, I need 900 billion. No, Jillian. |
| 0:42.3 | TBTL. |
| 0:48.3 | Take a hot dog, stuff it with some jack cheese, folded in a pizza. |
| 0:51.3 | You got cheesy blasters. |
| 0:53.3 | And then all the kids say, thanks, Meadcat. |
| 0:55.6 | And then Meekat flies away on his skateboard. |
| 0:58.5 | You know, what happened next was, you know, they'd open their mouth, they'd speak, they'd get laughed at, they'd get called Polacks. |
| 1:04.1 | And they didn't want to go through that. |
| 1:06.0 | You know, they wanted to get rid of that stigma. |
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