Episode #2159: The Problem With I
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2016
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Luke joins the show from behind a Cracker Barrel in Springfield, MO, where he's been trying his hand at competitive cup stacking. Meanwhile, Andrew tries grocery shopping at 5 a.m. and loves it. The two of them discuss something they don't usually discuss: The News. Plus, they say the first of many goodbyes to a very special Infinite Guester.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a thousand monkeys working in a thousand titritus. Soon, they'll have written the greatest novel known to men. |
| 0:08.0 | Let's see. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. You stupid monkey! |
| 0:16.0 | Oh shit! TVTL! |
| 0:23.0 | Pretty much anything to do with cats and the internet works. |
| 0:28.0 | And you can twist it and turn it whichever way the press decides to do. |
| 0:33.0 | Fight! That's the wrong number! |
| 0:37.0 | Self defense is not some fun boxing match, okay? It's about escaping with your life. |
| 0:41.0 | What's a matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken? |
| 0:44.0 | I keep loads of it, Danes, and I don't want to make a deal anymore. |
| 0:48.0 | Buckle up back there. We're going into hyperactive. |
| 0:58.0 | Yes indeed, everybody. It is a Friday afternoon edition of TBTL, the show that just might be too beautiful to live. |
| 1:08.0 | My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host coming to you from the shadow of a cracker barrel. |
| 1:15.0 | The restaurant, not a literal barrel full of crackers, although I tell you what I would eat that right now. |
| 1:21.0 | Pretty hungry. Really wishing I could have some carbs. |
| 1:24.0 | But excited to be here in the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia to be exact, to bring you this imaginary radio program. |
| 1:33.0 | The one that just might be too beautiful to live up, so 2,159 coming at you. |
| 1:40.0 | We got a lot to talk about today. You know, the real world, the world outside of this imaginary world, has been pretty grim of late. |
| 1:49.0 | And some of you, the tens of listeners, have noticed that we sort of don't tend to let that real kind of depressing, sad making world. |
| 2:01.0 | We don't let it always intrude on this world. The world of me sitting in a rental car, rental Hyundai Elantra, and recording this pod cart for you. |
| 2:09.0 | We try to keep those worlds fairly separate. Well, we're going to talk about the stories we talked about on this show a little bit coming up. |
| 2:17.0 | We've also got some more information involving the audible.com podcasts that have been started just don't call them podcasts, whatever you do. |
| 2:28.0 | Do not call them podcasts. Lots of people that Andrew and I know and have worked with have all kind of moved over to that platform. |
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