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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

Episode #1346: Stephen Tobolowsky Part 2

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Actor Stephen Tobolowsky talks about his most famous character, Ned "Needlenose" Ryerson from Groundhog day. Plus, Sean DeTore gives us a history of pinball.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I tell you this because as an artist, I think you'll understand.

0:04.0

Sometimes when I'm driving, on the road at night,

0:09.0

I seek two headlights coming toward me.

0:12.0

Fast, I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly,

0:15.0

head on into the oncoming car.

0:18.0

I can anticipate the explosion,

0:21.0

the sound of shattering glass,

0:24.0

flames rising out of the flowing gasoline.

0:30.0

Right.

0:32.0

Well, I have to go now to end,

0:36.0

because I'm doing back on the planet Earth.

0:44.0

No matter what stadium I broadcast from,

0:46.0

I would always have to find the closest bathroom.

0:48.0

Just in case I had that sudden urge to go.

0:51.0

I see world's records in my room set just about every single day.

0:55.0

Some people think a world's record is what set at the Olympics

0:58.0

or at the end of a baseball season.

1:00.0

I see this every single day,

1:02.0

and not just sometimes once.

1:03.0

What are you then?

1:04.0

Some sort of prick?

1:05.0

Some sort of idiot?

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