Episode #1332: Jim Whittaker, First American To Climb Mt. Everest
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2013
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On the 50th anniversary of becoming the first American to climb Mt. Everest, Jim Whittaker calls in and delights the TBTL faithful.
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| 0:00.0 | I got $160 ticket for going through a stop sign on my bicycle. |
| 0:05.0 | I got pulled over by a cop with a gun and a badge and a whole car. |
| 0:14.0 | You can't. What? He pulled me over after a pursuit, I guess. |
| 0:24.0 | He comes up to me and he's like, what's the hurry? He's like, God, you can't ask that. |
| 0:30.0 | When you're in a car and I am not TVTM. |
| 0:39.0 | This is coming from a place of jam and that place, I don't have a map for it. |
| 0:46.0 | You're going to hold it in for about 20 seconds or until your vision begins to vibrate. |
| 0:52.0 | Hey, come back to my place and you can look at my new chair. |
| 0:59.0 | I bought it while I was sitting in a chair. This is where you were bland. |
| 1:05.0 | And dull and chubby. |
| 1:07.0 | We're pregnant. We're pregnant. |
| 1:09.0 | We're pregnant. We're pregnant. |
| 1:11.0 | They said you were jowly. That's not a word. |
| 1:15.0 | These are going to be some words that we're talking to you on this Wednesday afternoon |
| 1:21.0 | edition of TBTL. This is the show that just might be too beautiful to live. |
| 1:26.0 | The only has to show for it is this stuffed banana with a drug box. |
| 1:30.0 | That's what they pay me with here on this imaginary radio program. |
| 1:34.0 | It's episode number 1,332 and a collector series. My name is Luke Burbank. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm your host, weighing into 190 pounds. |
| 1:42.0 | The traveling carnival is now setting up here in Dairy New Hampshire, but you will not see tubs of fun. |
| 1:49.0 | You will, I'm sure, find it entertaining. |
| 1:52.0 | I mean tonight on TBTL. |
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