May 29, 2009 – Part 3
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
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🗓️ 29 May 2009
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Why It Matters: The Muppets. Plus, answering life questions posed by listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Eww wee! That is a sweet looking spice car you got there. What is that, man? |
| 0:04.6 | This here, buddy, the TBTL with a 97-3 carol under the hood. It'll all ask. |
| 0:11.8 | It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to move the |
| 0:35.3 | table to the table to the table to the table. It's time to put on makeup. It's time to dress up guys. |
| 0:40.5 | It's time to raise a curtain on the Muppet Show tonight. Why do we always come here? I guess we'll never know. |
| 0:47.0 | It's like a kind of torture to have to watch the show. It's time to get excited on most sensational, inspirational, |
| 0:54.5 | machete, machete. This is what we call the machete show. |
| 1:04.9 | Nice work to those of you who called in with your renditions of the Muppet theme song. |
| 1:14.5 | Nice job to everyone and of course we're starting with that song because it's 8 o'clock here. |
| 1:18.9 | We're entering hour number two of this Friday night edition of TBTL and we are in fact |
| 1:22.9 | talking about the Muppets and why they matter. This has been a topic that we've been kicking around |
| 1:28.8 | for a long time because every time it comes up even in passing on the show, not unlike Jen's |
| 1:34.1 | discussion of her bunions. The feedback is almost overwhelming and so we've always known that this |
| 1:40.3 | is a very sort of fertile topic for us here on TBTL based on the age of a lot of the people who |
| 1:45.7 | listen to our show and when you know we have now a completely legitimate reason to talk about |
| 1:50.8 | the Muppets and that's because there is an amazing exhibition of Muppetry going on at the EMP right |
| 1:59.4 | now the experienced music project. It comes by way of the Smithsonian and Jason Emmons is the head |
| 2:05.6 | curator over at EMP and he joins us now on TBTL to talk about the Muppets. Hi Jason. How you doing? |
| 2:11.5 | Great. Thank you very much for coming in. Happy to be here. Were you a Muppets fan before |
| 2:17.7 | this was that part of why you wanted to go out and and and snag this particular exhibit? Well |
| 2:22.5 | you know I'm an odd example of this where I grew up without television and yet still you know |
| 2:27.9 | no of the Muppets and love the Muppets. Me too. Me too. We didn't have a TV in my house but |
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