October 29, 2009
TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live
TBTL
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2009
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Filthy drinking water! accidental pornos! greyhound bus pooping! These and many other tales of Cringe on today's show, the first ever Listener-Generated episode of TBTL.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're embarrassing me in company! You would ask yourself! |
| 0:07.8 | Hello everyone. Well, the Ball State softball team continued to play this weekend. |
| 0:12.9 | Tomorrow's game will be the meeting between the two, beating both. |
| 0:18.2 | Here's to... |
| 0:24.0 | The Indian and Paciars are looking for a measure of the revenge tonight. Let's check out the highest. |
| 0:32.2 | Steven Jackson, David... |
| 0:37.6 | Reggie Miller's looking good. Passes it to the man, shoots it, and boom goes the dynamite. |
| 0:43.7 | Okay, great. Thanks a lot for that look in the sports, Brian. |
| 0:51.2 | Cringey enough for you? Oh, just you wait. Faithful tens of listeners. |
| 0:56.2 | There's a lot more where that came from. On this very special Thursday afternoon edition of TBTL, |
| 1:02.0 | it's probably too beautiful to live. Or today, maybe too cringeworthy to exist. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm your host, Luke Burbank. Welcome to episode 430 in a collector series. |
| 1:13.8 | And exciting times here in TBTL, and this is a first of its kind. Our first ever listener generated |
| 1:20.7 | episode of this program. With apologies to this American life, we, in fact, picked a theme. |
| 1:27.9 | That theme being cringe. And we asked you, our tens of listeners, to send in your best little |
| 1:33.6 | audio snippets of cringey things that have happened to you or the people that you know and love. |
| 1:39.2 | And we've got a bunch of them dialed up for you today on the program. Thank you to everyone |
| 1:44.2 | who submitted. There were dozens of you. Some of the stories were profane. Some of them had audio |
| 1:50.8 | that was grossly out of whack, and therefore made them unerable. Some of them were cringe-worthy, |
| 1:56.1 | but not for the reasons that the people who submitted them intended them to be. But through all of it, |
| 2:02.0 | we managed to call a few gems from the batch, and we're going to play them for you here on today's |
| 2:09.3 | program. Of course, this is the appropriate show for a topic such as cringe. Being that my life |
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