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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

Episode #1121: K Records and The Rise of Independent Music

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2012

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Music journalist Mark Baumgarten stops by to talk about his new book, a history of K Records and its very, very weird founder Calvin Johnson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Luke here, TBTL will get underway in just a moment.

0:07.2

First though a reminder that we get sponsorship from Bing, Bing is all about the summer of

0:12.2

doing, and this week it's about doing work, it's about giving, it's about upcycling,

0:18.7

it's about unplugging, it's about food forwarding, it's about urban gardening, wait what

0:24.7

that is food forwarding, let's, let's Bing it, I'm looking at their food forwarding

0:30.3

page, and I think what they're talking about is just having a more forward attitude

0:34.5

in how one eats organic food, sustainability, eating food that's not making this planet

0:40.4

a worse place, stuff that's sustainable, this is all stuff you can find out about on Bing,

0:45.4

and a whole bunch of other things, we've had people, champagne sabering, we've had people

0:49.8

vertical gardening, we've had people doing some urban foraging out there in Detroit,

0:54.7

and this week we've got to pick something for someone else to do, considering some

0:58.8

of the conversations we've had, part of me thinks anti-bullying should be part of it,

1:03.8

but on the other hand, maybe we'll leave that to people in their own hearts, we want

1:08.8

to sign that to anyone, how, see the problem with unplugging is if they do it properly,

1:13.9

they can't listen to this show, maybe upcycling, what do you think about upcycling?

1:18.6

Upcycling is what we should go with.

1:20.0

Somebody can pretty something up, all right, we need an upcycler, we need you to take

1:23.1

something in your house, some item of yours, and then we need you to go on Bing and research

1:28.0

how upcycling works, and then we need to upcycle the live and tweetle out of something,

1:33.0

and so this week we'll be taking your emails as being our volunteer for upcycling, because

1:39.8

don't you know this is the summer of doing powered by Bing, Bing, check them out there

1:44.3

in an official sponsor of TBTL.

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