This is TVTL with Luke Burbank on NewsTalk 710, Cairo, now on 973 FM.

It's called the Large Hadron Collider, a massive scientific instrument that took 20 years

to create and cost $8 billion.

I heard the jury still out on science.

Joe, the sweat is caused by millions of tiny sweat glands dropping a deuce.

I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there.

Oh, hi, welcome to a Wednesday night edition of TVTL show that's probably too beautiful to live.

I'm your host, Luke Burbank, weighing in at 187 pounds, and that Jennifer is with

my belt, which is very heavy, and with my watch on, which I always usually take off before the

weigh-in. Long live morning weigh-ins. I know, I feel the same. It's almost enough to make me want

to buy a scale at my own house and just weigh myself there, but I mean that would cost upwards

of $20. Who can be bought? This is a Wednesday night edition of the show, which means we're here for

one hour. You just got done listening to the Seahawk Huddle, if you're one of our terrestrial

radio listeners, if you're a time band and listening to us sometime in the future, please send help.

Things are not good in 2008. You need a lot of help here. And so, as such, also by the way,

we're on tape. It's Wednesday morning. We've got a great conversation with Jeff Gettelman coming up

from the New York Times. We'll tell you about that. First, though, flash. Morning weigh-in. How'd it go?

6 a.m. 130. Jeez, Louise, you get up at 6 a.m.

Well, I have been because of what's going on with the economy. What is your plan to just just watch

and kind of like rock back and forth like Rainman? You want to be able to properly age in a rapid

sort of way. Did you read the Thomas Friedman column yet today in the New York Times? No, I didn't.

Oh, he told it. It's well worth it. Check it out today. Okay. At Rasha Shana yesterday, his

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