Episode #2676: Let's Be Frank: TBTL Salutes The Great American Hot Dog
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Luke and Andrew get together over a sizzling grill to celebrate one of America's most beloved and most ridiculed foods: The Hot Dog. They also head to Safeco Field to find out what people are putting on their hot dogs at the ball park, and Splendid Table host Francis Lam joins them to justify dedicating one hour of public radio airtime to cased meats.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't want to get into the hot dog versus sausage thing. Well, I might have to. We'll figure it out. I might have to |
| 0:08.7 | You guide me hot dog story you guide me |
| 0:11.9 | I don't try to I don't try to define where the hot dog stories going |
| 0:16.9 | It's in the you know what? It's in the hands of the hot dog muses now |
| 0:22.0 | Well, we have our dry intro tape |
| 0:30.3 | I'm starting to feel like a corn dog and a hot dog party and it ain't flattered. I'll tell you that |
| 0:35.2 | Well, there's there's that fine line between you know have showing emotion and being a hot dog |
| 0:39.7 | What do you think the stripes are in the American flag? |
| 0:42.5 | They're hot dogs. They're boiled and unboiled hot dogs white and red and white and red |
| 0:46.0 | Obviously, that's the platonic ideal of a hot dog can and ain't nobody on earth gonna argue with that |
| 0:51.0 | I may hot dogs you have for lunch three. Well, there's your problem. You're starving your body's literally eating itself |
| 0:57.8 | Let's see if I have an emergency dogs on my desk. I bet I do |
| 1:06.8 | Well happy 4th of July other buckets |
| 1:10.8 | Welcome to a special tbtl |
| 1:14.8 | Wednesday edition of the program |
| 1:17.1 | This right here is the show that just might be too beautiful to live |
| 1:22.7 | Like the |
| 1:24.3 | Representative democracy that we currently live in I said I wasn't gonna get political and here I am getting political right at the beginning of the show |
| 1:31.3 | It's up as a 2,600 and 75 and a collector series. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host |
| 1:39.0 | I paused there because I was like is this technically representative democracy like what do I remember from schoolhouse rock |
| 1:45.1 | What is the alleged form of government that I feel like is being trampled? I don't know |
| 1:49.2 | You know what my face you face Chris Hayes talk to people who know about that stuff |
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