Episode #1959: What Rhymes With Cauterize?
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Luke joins the show from beautiful Pittsburgh, where he's attending a public radio conference. However, things are not going as planned. Meanwhile, Andrew is either sick or faking sickness in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. Also, listeners weigh-in with their suggested "John Boehner" chyron captions for the Daily Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, welcome to my show everybody. I know you did pay $100, but here here's $100 |
| 0:08.7 | back to you and 10%. So $10 for you. Enjoy my show. And after my show, I shall live in |
| 0:16.8 | Courtsports Boxhouse on the street because I do not understand financials and I am poverty. |
| 0:23.6 | You're here to make friends. Making friends is the name of this show. I'm done with wolves now. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm into angry unicorns. If I was a unicorn, I'd never be angry. You'll be staying with two of our |
| 0:44.2 | undergrads in their dorm room. What's a dorm room? Oh, it's where the students sleep. Oh, a room |
| 0:49.4 | chair. Oh, I like that. And you know, maybe meals with them in the dining hall. That's the |
| 0:54.3 | cacitorium. Good afternoon and welcome to Judgment City. You've just had quite a little journey. So for |
| 1:00.6 | now relax and enjoy the ride. Oh, indeed. Welcome everybody to a Wednesday afternoon edition of TBTL. |
| 1:15.2 | It is Wednesday, right? Things are starting to blur together. I believe this is a Wednesday afternoon |
| 1:20.6 | edition of the program. I know this. This is the show that just might be too beautiful to live. I |
| 1:27.5 | also know that on your host, Luke Burbank, coming to you today from the intersection of the Ohio, |
| 1:33.9 | Allegheny, and Managa Hela Rivers in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. That's right. It's episode 1,959 |
| 1:46.8 | in a collector's series. I just about lost my mind last night. And a lot of it came down to |
| 1:59.5 | the music of the band collective soul happening at a very inopportune time. So we'll talk about that. |
| 2:05.6 | Also, you heard it here first. That's probably not true. You probably haven't even heard the |
| 2:11.3 | episode that I'm talking about yet. But anyway, a couple days ago, we were talking about water on |
| 2:16.9 | Mars and we were dazzled by the details about the discern political conversation about where on Mars |
| 2:24.7 | our space rovers should go based on if they might be bringing earth germs around. Well, |
| 2:29.3 | the New York Times has waited on the whole issue. We'll tell you about that. Also, as promised yesterday, |
| 2:34.9 | we'll talk about the MacArthur Genius Awards. We'll talk about all of that while a very well-meaning |
| 2:40.7 | lady vacuums incessantly outside of my hotel room here at the William Penn Omni Hotel in Pittsburgh, |
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