Episode #1204: Can I Please Talk To Someone In America?
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2012
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Luke and Andrew stage their first ever interstate recording, meanwhile Luke's interactions with a foreign call center has him feeling some complicated feelings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there oh here airport please it's United all right let's dial this up here |
| 0:14.2 | Andrew Walsh see if this works hello Chicago come in Chicago hey there are you |
| 0:24.0 | are you hearing me I can hear you great can you hear me okay yes are you |
| 0:28.3 | recording this I am is that okay yeah that was that was the plan so I'm glad |
| 0:33.5 | to glad to hear that you you're sticking to it yeah I'm I'm here I did a |
| 0:39.6 | little explanation to the cab driver so he doesn't think I'm he has picked up |
| 0:43.2 | a rapidly cycling psychotic on the trip a person who just talks to his friend on |
| 0:50.4 | the phone in a weirdly radio style while driving to the airport doesn't make you |
| 0:53.8 | not psychotic just because you have an excuse this time like basically this |
| 0:59.2 | isn't the evidence right right well from a from a taxi cab in Chicago on my |
| 1:09.9 | way to the airport and where you sitting right now Andrew the attic and an |
| 1:16.0 | attic in Seattle Washington welcome everybody to a Friday afternoon |
| 1:20.5 | edition of TBTL this is the show that just might be too beautiful to live |
| 1:26.2 | it's episode 1,200 and four in a collector series and well we tried a lot of |
| 1:34.8 | a cockamama schemes on this program this may be the most cockamama I am I'm |
| 1:41.6 | recording myself here in the cab Andrew is a recording his part of the |
| 1:47.0 | conversation in Seattle what are you using there to record your side of |
| 1:50.2 | things I've got a I've got a heck of a set up here I got my little edderall |
| 1:54.4 | Roland recorder I got a little shotgun microphone set up I it's attached to my |
| 1:59.9 | desk I feel like a real kind of a janky radio professional when you said |
| 2:05.1 | edder all I thought you said adder all and I was like I hope you're not taking |
| 2:09.2 | adder all to do this show I mean I know it's stressful but I don't want you to |
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