Episode #1596: From The TED Radio Hour, Guy Raz!
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2014
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
NPR's Guy Raz stops by to talk about covering wars and pickling vegetables, meanwhile a listener sends Luke and Andrew an unintentionally (they hope) mean email.
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| 0:00.0 | Feed the birds, top and sub-ing, top and sub-ing, top and sub-ing, top and sub-ing. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, hey there! Hi everybody, it's Luke. Just hanging out, listening to some music. |
| 0:22.0 | This is how I get pumped up for these fundraiser shows. |
| 0:26.0 | I just like to listen to one of the recognized masters in the field, the weird bird lady from Mary Poppins. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh, her words are simple and few. |
| 0:43.0 | Listen, listen, she's calling to you. |
| 0:50.0 | So yeah, it's Thursday. |
| 0:52.0 | It's the fourth day of the TBT Lathon 5, Cinco D'Anero. |
| 0:57.0 | We made some okay progress yesterday. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you if you're somebody who's donated to the show. |
| 1:03.0 | If you have, please realize that I am no longer gilting you. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm gilting somebody in the cubicle next to you. |
| 1:11.0 | Or somebody else on the bus who's listening with their headphones and laughing inappropriately. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm gilting the people out there who have listened to the show, have enjoyed the show, |
| 1:22.0 | and have been meaning to make a quick donation to the show of any amount, by the way, and have not gotten around to it. |
| 1:30.0 | I just would like to let you know that we say this every year, and it's true every year, |
| 1:37.0 | we are able to do this show because of the donations that are made by the listeners. |
| 1:41.0 | Because we do this five days a week. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm in a hotel in Seattle, and it's my birthday today, not to brag. |
| 1:49.0 | And I'm about to call Andrew up in Los Angeles, and he's going to a taping of a TV show on HBO, |
| 1:55.0 | but he's delaying that because we're going to get together and do TBL. |
| 1:58.0 | Why? Because this is our job. |
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