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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

Episode #2158: Strict Deutstructionist

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2016

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Luke joins the show from beautiful Branson, MO, aka "Sin City without the sin." He and Andrew discuss Santa Clauses (or is it Santas Claus?), a "ghost town" that's not really a town, and the best Capitol Steps promo you'll never hear.

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0:00.0

Hello, hi everybody. I promise I wasn't gonna make a toast and I'm not going to just go in and do a little freestanding comedy

0:06.1

And if at the end everybody wants to raise their glasses to Pam and Jim then so be it. Hey, what is a deal with the smart car?

0:14.7

How smart is that those things are tiny? Can you even drive them in traffic?

0:19.1

Yeah, I'm so smart. E equals mc squared. I drive a smart car. That's not smart in my book. The real smart car is kit

0:27.8

from Knight Rider. That's a car that can talk. Can smart car talk? Nope. That's not smart. And also Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Very smart. And

0:39.1

You everybody can laugh. It doesn't have to just be the idiots.

0:52.5

I don't care. Get a job. We'll get a job? Yeah. Just get a job while I shut up. I'm a job helmet.

0:56.8

Squeeze that into a job kit and fire off into job lead. We're jobs growing jobbies. Alright, I'm gonna assume that's hypothetical, right?

1:04.5

Your hypothetical is kind of tightly constrained and I doubt whether that kind of thing would ever happen.

1:09.2

I'm not gonna sit here and juggle hypotheticals that aren't in the world.

1:14.4

I'm sorry, but when I hear an undeserved compliment it makes my ears want to throw up. Oh, your ears are always throwing up about something.

1:21.3

We'll give them some to throw up about how about a Thursday afternoon edition of TBTL, the show that just

1:32.4

might be too beautiful to live. Hello, everyone. I'm your host, Luke Burbank, coming to you from the shores of Table Rock Lake.

1:42.3

In Branson, Missouri, the live music capital of the world.

1:48.0

Yes, indeed. It's episode 2,158 in a collector series.

1:54.8

I was informed through various subtle back channel sources called Producer Angel Walsh.

2:03.8

That I got the numbering of the shows off and I know that it probably just, I mean, it's one of those things

2:12.8

like sort of around March Madness. They can track the loss of productivity. They claim these companies

2:20.9

like Challenger, Gray and Christmas. By the way, speaking of Christmas, a lot to talk about here in Branson.

2:26.3

With Discover Santa 2016, which I'm here covering, a thousand or so Santa's descending on Branson, Missouri.

2:34.0

No, it's not a fever dream or a bad trip. It's really happening and I'm in the middle of it.

2:40.5

You've never seen so many Santa's driving kias. It's like everywhere you look, there's a rental car with a

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