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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

Episode #1016: Telekinesis!

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Michael Lerner from Telekinesis stops by to talk Valentine's Day, play Justin Beiber covers, and fill us in on his new life as the famous drummer for Portlandia Live.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know what I like to celebrate on February 14th?

0:10.1

The 1920 founding of the League of Women Voters in Chicago, Illinois.

0:15.5

Interesting fact, they were supposed to meet on the 13th, but they all got lost.

0:21.7

Hey there, everybody. Welcome to a Tuesday afternoon edition of TBTL.

0:32.8

This is the show that's probably too beautiful to live.

0:35.8

And guess what? It's Valentine's Day and it's a day of love shared between us and

0:44.9

imaginary radio show that most people thought was too beautiful to live and

0:48.8

all of you are tens of listeners. This is episode 1,016 in a collector's

0:58.1

series. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host

1:04.1

weighing in at 192 pounds. Oh yeah. We've got a fun special guest in store for

1:10.6

you on today's program. Hi, this is Luke Mom Suzy coming tonight on TBTL.

1:15.8

His name is Michael Lerner and his band is called Telekinesis and along with

1:21.0

putting out a couple of really really awesome records that we play all the

1:25.1

time here on TBTL. He's also been moonlighting of late as the drummer for the

1:30.0

Portlandia live show. So we're going to chat with him about that. He's also been

1:40.2

over there just learning a brand new song for us on this Valentine's Day.

1:44.0

Yeah, can you scoot just a little bit closer to that microphone? Can you hear me?

1:49.8

Yeah, yeah, we were just we were talking today about I don't think either of us

1:53.0

even realized that today was Valentine's Day when we made this plan. No, am I

1:56.8

interrupting anything? No, no, no, no. Scoot this over a little bit. Can you is that

2:01.8

too close for comfort? No, that's great. Closer to the better. Yeah. We are a

2:05.4

sound engineer. That's true. So you can appreciate the importance of

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