Episode #976: The Dear Leader is No More
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2011
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We say good riddance to a cruel and delusional dictator and we say a fond goodbye to Christopher Hitchens. Plus, learning a new word, an unplanned Charles Grodin segment and a message from Norway about their lack of butter: It's Not Funny.
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| 0:00.0 | You better watch out! You better watch out! |
| 0:03.6 | Say it in the song! Close this up about the K-O-U! |
| 0:08.1 | T-B-T-M! |
| 0:14.4 | You gotta watch that guy. I'm not kidding. That's just the kind of useful and I would say |
| 0:20.4 | hard to find information that you'll find right here on this very exciting Monday afternoon |
| 0:25.6 | edition of T-B-T-L. This is the show. It's probably too beautiful to live. |
| 0:29.8 | So I was just calling about the two beautiful to be heard. I can't believe you're still on the air. |
| 0:36.8 | Oh yes, we are. In fact, this is episode 976 in a collector series. |
| 0:41.4 | Oh yeah! My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host. We've got lots of stuff to discuss with you |
| 0:46.2 | on this Monday. Hi, this is Luke's Mom Suzy coming tonight on T-B-T-L. |
| 0:50.9 | We mentioned the passing of two well-known people, both of whom weirdly enough managed to |
| 0:58.0 | worm their way into the fabric of T-B-T-L for a variety of reasons. We'll talk about the passing |
| 1:04.0 | of Kim Jong Il and also Christopher Hitchens. Also, it's Monday, so that means it's Granny time! |
| 1:11.0 | Jen will bring us up to speed on everything Granny related, including her new favorite word, |
| 1:17.0 | which comes with an audio example. So that'll be exciting. Speaking of Jen Flesh Andrews, |
| 1:23.0 | she's right over there, and if I can, activate this. I love changes, but I drink a little. |
| 1:27.2 | And her microphone without spilling my lemon ginger tea. Which is better than spilling whiskey. |
| 1:33.5 | It's having on Thursday. That did happen, didn't it? That wasn't... I have to say, you know, |
| 1:40.2 | that a little wild, it was more like a brown out than a blackout. I had forgotten until you mentioned |
| 1:45.2 | that, that I had in fact spilled whiskey on the console here, but you know what was amazing was |
| 1:49.5 | after that Christmas broadcast was done, immediately everybody sprung into action, getting the studio |
| 1:55.4 | completely cleaned up, so that we didn't get yelled at by the other real radio shows. |
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