Episode #1006: Ira Glass!
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2012
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ira Glass swings by to discuss a stand-up comedian he'd like to fight, the latest exotic meat he's been feeding his dog, and why Luke isn't the most bumped contributor to This American Life (but it's close).
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| 0:00.0 | We need the pages, especially Kenneth. |
| 0:02.7 | He, uh, well, he, uh, he always scratches that weird part of my back that I can't reach. |
| 0:10.0 | Unless... |
| 0:12.5 | Oh! |
| 0:13.5 | That's the business! |
| 0:15.0 | Now who's in charge, winter dryness? |
| 0:17.5 | TVTL! |
| 0:24.0 | Hey there everybody, welcome to a Tuesday afternoon edition of TVTL This. |
| 0:29.5 | Is the show that's probably too beautiful to live? |
| 0:32.0 | That's the fun begin. |
| 0:33.5 | My name's Luke Burbank, I'm your host, weighing in at, uh, £193? |
| 0:40.0 | Oh yeah! |
| 0:41.5 | Holding steady on my, uh, my big, uh, my big slow car being. |
| 0:46.5 | I've lost hundreds of pounds and gained hundreds of confidence. |
| 0:49.0 | This is episode 1,000 and 6 in a collector series and... |
| 0:54.0 | Well, we've got a lot of excitement for you. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi, this is Luke's Mom Suzy coming tonight on TVTL. |
| 1:01.0 | We're calling this our TVTL 1,000th episode DO over show! |
| 1:06.0 | Because there were a few things that didn't go exactly perfectly. |
| 1:10.0 | But when we did our big 1,000th show and we, we aimed to fix that right now, including... |
| 1:14.5 | At long last, a conversation with the man, the myth, the glasses. |
| 1:19.5 | I were glad. |
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