Episode #1206: – Live From The Polls, Election Day!
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2012
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Luke and Andrew try their best not to get too political on election day, then probably get a little too political. Plus, they check in with a TBTL Ten manning the polls in Massachusetts.
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| 0:00.0 | I have represented our party twice on the county ballot in both the primary and the general elections, |
| 0:07.3 | and I will not apologize for my tone tonight. I have been a Republican. It doesn't go in, |
| 0:13.7 | and I have been a Republican. It doesn't matter! |
| 0:18.8 | Albert Einstein issued one of my most favorite quotes in the history of the spoken word, |
| 0:24.1 | and it is as follows. In the middle of opportunity, excuse me, in the middle of difficulty lies |
| 0:34.6 | an opportunity. I'm going to repeat that, so I have clarity tonight. In the middle of |
| 0:39.0 | my difficulty lies opportunity. This is the opportunity we've been waiting for. |
| 0:46.1 | I will certify the results after all the precincts have reported. A final tally within 1% will trigger |
| 0:56.4 | an automatic recount. In the event of an exact tie, the seat is awarded to the male candidate, |
| 1:01.8 | and the female candidate is put in jail. Once again, I have to object. I don't think it would hold |
| 1:06.8 | up in court, but it is city law. It makes no difference between one of us who vote for. |
| 1:12.0 | By the way, your candidate is doomed. DOOMED! You just woke up this morning, |
| 1:18.4 | and suddenly decided to run for president? I mean, you can practically smell the bills becoming |
| 1:22.8 | laws. You can taste the sweet sugar of bureaucracy at work. Don't understand why we have |
| 1:27.6 | the builder ray gun to aim at a planet I never even heard of. Don't blame me, I voted |
| 1:33.5 | precoto. The thing is, those people on that far away planet, they hate our freedom, and so we |
| 1:42.0 | well, we had no choice. We had to go after them. And you have no choice, my dear friendos, |
| 1:47.4 | but to listen to this here, a Tuesday afternoon edition of TBTL, a very special election day, |
| 1:55.0 | 2012 edition of the show that just might be too beautiful to live. Do you think people will vote |
| 2:00.8 | for me? Heck yes! My name is Luke Burbank. It's episode 1206 in a collector series thrilled to have |
| 2:11.2 | you here. I guess talking about the fact that there's a big series of elections today, |
| 2:19.7 | and we'll also be calling up one of our listeners who's in Massachusetts, who's, I don't know if he's |
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