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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

February 5, 2009 – Part 3

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2009

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Interview with pop music writer Sasha Frere-Jones, followed by discussion of said interview.

Transcript

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0:00.0

T-B-T-L is call takers, T-B-T-L is mystery solvers, T-B-T-L is love songers, T-B-T-L is give backers, T-B-T-L is too beautiful to live on 97-3-F-N-Kyro.

0:15.0

There I am! I'm me and the boys, yeah.

0:19.0

Boy, men were men back then I'll tell you.

0:23.0

You want to do something private with another man? It wasn't gay, no.

0:28.0

It's just two men celebrating each other's strength.

0:35.0

Also known as two bros, broing it up.

0:40.0

This is T-B-T-L. Welcome to our number two of this Thursday night edition of the show.

0:46.0

It's episode 261 in a collector's series.

0:51.0

We're very, very excited about our next guest, Mr. Sasha Freyr Jones of the New Yorker magazine.

1:02.0

We're going to talk to him in a moment. I want to let you know that at 9 o'clock tonight will be time for awesome, not awesome.

1:08.0

A guy did an experiment with his credit card signature.

1:13.0

You know how you write with the pen on that little computer screen?

1:18.0

He wondered if that actually went anywhere, if your signature was stored and if it needed in any way to relate to the signature on the back of your card.

1:28.0

He did all these experiments and there was an article about it on consumerist.

1:33.0

We'll tell you, finally when he drew a picture of a genital as his signature, that was when he finally got in trouble for it.

1:43.0

We'll tell you what you can and can't do when it comes to that kind of stuff in just a moment.

1:48.0

Rather at 9 o'clock when we get into some awesome, not awesome.

1:51.0

First though, we're very excited to talk to our guest who is apparently less interested in being on the radio show, but very interested in talking to you, Jen.

2:02.0

Did you guys have a nice time in there?

2:04.0

Yeah, we were dealing with the phone. He's all set.

2:06.0

Oh, sweet. What happened? Did he start out? Well, I'll just ask him myself.

2:10.0

Hi, Sasha. Welcome to the show.

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