Episode #1012: Happy Birthday John Williams
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2012
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We learn that someone tried to stop the Challenger launch in News from 1986. And Norway meets North Korea in a lovely mash-up. Plus Jen shows John Williams some love and we end it all with a Web Gem.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, well, we've heard from you, Scott, now you tell us a little about yourself. |
| 0:07.0 | The details of my life are quite inconsequential. |
| 0:11.0 | My father was a relentlessly self-improving, blanche ray owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a pinch-aunt for buggery. |
| 0:19.0 | My father would womanize, you would drink, who would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. |
| 0:26.0 | Sometimes you would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. |
| 0:30.0 | When I was insulin, I was placed in a burlap bag and beating with rates. Pretty standard, really. |
| 0:44.0 | There we go. And here we go on a Wednesday afternoon edition of TBTL. |
| 0:50.0 | This is the show that's probably too beautiful to live. |
| 0:53.0 | It's time for Operation Crazy Plan. |
| 0:56.0 | My name is Luke Burbank, I'm your host, weighing in at 194 pounds. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, yeah! |
| 1:00.0 | Kind of plateauing here, but I'm sticking with it people. |
| 1:04.0 | Sticking with it, and endeavoring to bring you this 1,012th episode in a collector's series. |
| 1:11.0 | Hi, this is Luke's mom, Suzy, coming tonight on TBTL. |
| 1:16.0 | A Werner Herzog, the film director, is Zay. |
| 1:20.0 | This is an interesting guy. He's no fan of Klaus Kinski. |
| 1:25.0 | His longtime collaboration partner in many of his movies. |
| 1:28.0 | He wants to eat a shoe in the movie. Werner Herzog eats a shoe, but there's... |
| 1:32.0 | There's something that he dislikes more than just about anything else unearth and we found out about it when this clip of him hit the internet. |
| 1:38.0 | The enormity of their flat brain, the enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't tell you what he was talking about coming up in a moment also. |
| 1:50.0 | There's a guy. |
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