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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

Episode #975: Welcome to the Thunderdome

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2011

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

When the economy turned bad, we looked to a Mel Gibson movie to show us the way. This is our week of living by the rules of Thunderdome. It includes our decision to eat on 3 dollars a day for a week, how that worked out, and our interview with foodie legend, Alice Waters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Luke Burbank. I'm somewhere wishing I was eating carbs. I hope you're enjoying

0:06.2

this best of T-B-T-L. Next time you're feeling down, feeling that no one really gets you, or you're

0:18.4

just wanting to hear some encouraging words. Well, there's a solution. You can have what you want,

0:23.3

you can do it. The finish line is closer than you think. The choose to use CD is eight tracks filled

0:30.0

with encouragement and cheering applause. It's even been featured on the Ellen DeGeneres show.

0:34.6

We're on your side. We're here for you. We believe in you. We're going to. You'll be feeling better

0:42.8

about yourself and your life, or we'll give you your money back.

0:49.9

Welcome to hour number two on this Wednesday night. Show that we like to call T-B-T-L because

0:58.2

many indications are that it might be too beautiful to live. Now, I understand the brother here is

1:02.8

causing an overlap station situation. I'm your host, Luke Burbank. Got a long time producer,

1:11.1

Jen Flash Andrews by my side and right over there in the other room. We've got Japan's number one

1:18.4

mixer, Mr. Sean Dittori. And maybe after our Thunderdome preparations actually run their course,

1:29.9

maybe Sean will be better known as the number one Thunderdome fight choreographer. I hope so.

1:37.4

We'll just have to see how this all turns out. We've got a, you know, like everyone else,

1:45.3

we watch the financial news that seems to have been pretty bleak. I mean, again, we're very happy,

1:53.4

very relieved that as of late, it looks like the market seems to have stabilized for the moment,

1:58.0

anyway. But it's still hard to not get super worried when you hear about all this news of basically

2:10.4

every bank in the country being on sort of, you know, shaky terms. And we were talking last week

2:16.4

about, or maybe it was two weeks ago, about how I actually had this thought that maybe I needed to

2:22.8

think about trying to like buy a small plot of land somewhere and learn how to actually

2:28.7

how to grow things because it's, it's, it's like, you know, you start to think to yourself,

2:33.9

where does, what is the ultimate endgame for all this? Okay, so what if the, what if stock market

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