TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL Road Trip Week continues! We hear a "road trip nightmare" story from listener Lisa, and then Luke and Andrew head out to Safeco Field to take in a ballgame.

TBTL kicks-off Road Trip Week! Andrew tracks down Luke and interrupts his vacation. Then we take a drive around town in a 2008 Scion XD.

Sean tells us about his terrible, no good, 50 minute date he setup through match.com

Bryan Bishop stops by to talk about his battle with an inoperable brain tumor and the book that it spawned, "Shrinkage"

Luke and Andrew find out the racist past of a popular kid's song, and try to permanently destroy Andrew's Least Favorite Audio Drop Ever.

Luke and Andrew remember the TBTL Live Show, and wonder if they should play funny tape of Casey Kasam, considering he is missing and in ill health.

Luke, Andrew, Sean, Carey & The Tens strap on some protective shoe booties and gather in the basement for a live recording.

Sean Luke and Andrew collect in the basement in advance of the big live show and discuss Sean's online dating profile.

NPR's Guy Raz stops by to talk about covering wars and pickling vegetables, meanwhile a listener sends Luke and Andrew an unintentionally (they hope) mean email.

Luke meets a very unusually dressed woman sitting by the fountain, and records his first PT Cruisin' segment. Plus, Andrew is not thrilled about the proposed TBTL Drink Names for Friday's party.

Luke Jen & Sean reunite to bring back some TBTL favorites and marvel that the show even still exists.

Fresh off Letterman and Fresh Air appearances, TBTL Pal Hari Kondabolu stops by to talk about a post-racial america. Meanwhile a controversial SNL bit launches a new TBTL Segment: One and A Half (White) Men.

Luke calls up Jen "Flash" Andrews, whose new job is to try and keep him up to speed on pop culture, which he no longer follows.

Luke and Andrew try to figure out a non-offensive term for Anarchist May Day Protesters, and proceed to offend them for 45 solid minutes.

TBTL tests out the new phone machine Luke installed, with mixed results.

Luke makes a big announcement about TBTL Live May 9th, and hopes he doesn't end up really regretting it.

Luke blurts something out to a nice lady on the train and wishes he could take it back. Plus, the debut of TBTL's new hit segment: OPP!

Jesse Thorn, of 'Bullseye' and "Jordan Jesse Go' stops by to talk about how his deepest birthday wish came true at The DMV.

Luke finds a Ronald McDonald press release to be the saddest thing he's ever written, while Andrew has some nominations of his own to that dubious award.

Luke learns that his preferred method of coffee drinking is making the planet cry while Andrew becomes totally obsessed with the 1980's computer game "Cosmic Osmo"

Luke and Carey try to patch things up with their neighbor, while Andrew is not interested in rumors of a powdered form of alcohol.

Luke & Andrew discuss HBO's controversial decision to stray from "Game of Thrones" original plot, and speaking of controversies, Luke's neighbor decides to draw a line in the grass.

Luke and Andrew trade tales of childhood misdeeds and the spankings they led to.

Luke decides to hand out a little Ol' Fashioned Passive Aggressive Liberal Justice while Andrew is fed up with his tardy eye doctor.

Luke has one of his worst fears come true regarding the shared bathroom at his office, and Andrew prepares his pro se legal defense after deciding not to file his taxes.

Andrew realizes, during the show, that he hasn't filled his taxes. Meanwhile Luke's attempts to give him tax advice doesn't go well.

Adam Carolla stops by to talk about how his fight to save podcasting from patent trolls will take him to Mordor, aka East Texas.

Jen "Flash" Andrews joins Luke to talk about wildly racist stories, judgmental dog owners, and parts of the body where Kool Aid should never shoot out of.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes stops by to discuss the Colbert Late Night News, missing airplanes and how not to play bocci ball with a Navy SEAL.

Luke heads to Chicago but not before posting interviews with a couple of his favorite folks. Carl Kasell of NPR Fame and Fred Armisen of Being Hilarious Fame.

Luke tries to help Andrew by teaching him how to "Mickey Rooney" his life.

Before the show can even start, Luke grows very angry at the antics of Kid Rock's NCAA warmup concert and Andrew makes an embarrassing confession about his video game habits.

On "Game of Thrones Eve Eve," George RR Martin stops by TBTL to talk about his spectacularly popular book series, A Song of Ice And Fire.

Luke sees someone fishing the spare change out of the local fountain, which launches TBTL on an epic discussion of what real happiness is.

With the help of the listeners, Luke and Andrew try to finally get to the bottom of this "Exception That Proves The Rule" madness.

Andrew's morning shower ritual runs into some problems, while Luke battles through a tooth-ache and "painful hair" to host the show.

TBTL tries to get more "upworthy" on the internet, and the 10's of Listeners weigh in with their ideas for the latest incarnation of the show.

As always, Luke and Andrew have the best of plans to do a normal show, but end up debating the best driving routes for Andrew to get through LA. Also, a chat with hilarious comedian Hari Kondabolu.

Luke goes to his second Cross Fit class and gets paired with a challenging partner, and he and Andrew realize that the reason TBTL exists, is to make the listeners feel less bad about their own emotional lives.

Luke and Andrew talk about boundaries, get a call from New TBTL Blogger Toni, and sound extremely corny when talking about "rap" and being "funky fresh"

Luke gets a ride to the show from the World's Most Depressed Cabbie while Andrew's family relations seem to be benefiting from LA's awful traffic.

TBTL officially starts broadcasting from the tiny town of Port Townsend Wa, and Luke learns that he's probably still the same person.

Ken Jennings, the Best Jeopardy Player Of All Time, explains how he got on the show, why he did so well, and if Arthur Chu, the recent player who "gamed" the show was playing fair.

Jen "Flash" Andrews stops by to explain the reason why a prominent Indiana architect wants people to build their bathrooms outside.

Luke and Jeopardy All-Time Champ Ken Jennings talk about how you make kids smart, and how he squares his religious faith with an intensely rational brain.

Luke and Andrew talk about the helicopter crash that transfixed Seattle, and the comments Luke made on Monday that rubbed Andrew the wrong way.

Luke and Andrew realize that they've been pitted against each other in a public radio fight to the death.

Luke chats with AD Miles and Michael Blieden, two super talented guys who make Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show look good.

The internet turns 25, and Luke and Andrew remember their early online days- talking on sex newsgroups and going into something called "the parents page" and getting kicked out.

Luke and Andrew try to decide what meat they would eat for the rest of their lives, if they had to pick just one, all while Luke's family interrupts the show with text news of Golden Tate.