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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

October 24, 2008 – Part 3

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A look back at early segments of the show that helped define who and what we are.(Including an appearance from the TBTL Players.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I was watching me in my mind, wasn't it watching it moving in the man I kicked him.

0:10.0

Hey, the man I was gonna try to punch him, you know what he did, he kicked him in a penis, he was injured, injured man.

0:24.0

Welcome to our numero dos of the 200th episode of TBTL show that's probably too beautiful to live.

0:36.0

Boy oh boy, I can't tell you how happy I am to be here tonight on this Friday.

0:40.0

Luke Burbank, your host along with longtime producer Jen.

0:44.0

Don't call me Road Dog, Flash, Andrews, Sean, Ditori, Japan's number one mixer, and all of you who just thank you so much everybody for listening to the show.

0:53.0

For the last, I don't know, 10, 11 months, how long has it been?

0:57.0

It's been 200 shows. Whatever that works out to be.

1:02.0

And we had Jane Strauss on in the first hour and we're trying to kind of dance with who brung us tonight.

1:09.0

We're bringing you some of the people and the topics that really kind of established what TBTL was going to be all about even in the early days.

1:19.0

And you know, one of the segments that we did that is cited very often to me when I run into people and I talk about the show with them is the conversation that we had about the karate.

1:32.0

Rangers are all around us, practicing their deadly art of invisibility.

1:37.0

In fact, this even dissegment that we're going to play you some excerpts from in a moment, it actually predates the show.

1:43.0

I mean the idea for it, before we had a radio show, like I think I was in New York.

1:48.0

I really think I was like in New York on the phone at my old job at my old desk.

1:54.0

When you quit one job, but then you're trying to line the next one up and then you're using the old job's phone.

2:00.0

That's shady. And Jen, you and I were talking about the kinds of things that we wanted to talk about on this show.

2:06.0

And we said we wanted to take a really almost academic approach to things that are kind of shallow, seeming and ephemeral.

2:16.0

And one of them was the karate kid.

2:19.0

Right, and that kind of became the example we always gave when we were pitching the show to our boss ride our cat.

2:24.0

We brought that up, you know.

2:25.0

Yeah, and then with the Seattle Times wrote a story about us, Flora Angela, Dovela there.

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