Tbtl- Too Beautiful To Live

Luke does his best to corrupt a minor while placing bets at a basketball game. Andrew can’t tell the difference between Bill Hader, Will Forte, and Jason Sudeikis. And a Seattle band says they got fired from a gig at an Amazon-owned arena after singing lyrics that made fun of Jeff Bezos. 

Instagram removed one of Luke’s photos, and he thinks the Illuminati is involved. Andrew learns that “The Chocolate Cough” isn’t a universal phenomenon. And neighbors in Astoria, WA, are dealing with some major Goonies-related drama.

Luke’s trip to San Francisco was bonkers, and Andrew’s latest experiment with internet stalking pays off. Plus, they finally talk about this week’s Trader Joe’s news, then immediately regret it. 

Luke has a close call at the barber shop, and Andrew tries to complete an important task during the show. They also spend some time offering long-overdue praise for Google Maps.

Luke helps Andrew with a home improvement conundrum. Plus, a high school journalist in Massachusetts breaks the story that her school’s lights can’t be turned off and have been burning non-stop for years.

The M&Ms marketing team claims it’s getting rid of it’s cartoon spokescandies and replacing them with Maya Rudolf, which sounds good, but Andrew’s irritated by the whole thing. Plus ,a garbage truck knocked over Luke’s anchor! (Also, Luke has an anchor.)

Luke finished watching the second season of The White Lotus, so he and Andrew compare notes (with plenty of spoiler alerts, don’t worry.) Plus, the expensive Star Wars hotel may have overestimated the public’s desire to pay $5000 to sleep on a fake spaceship. 

Andrew visited his Eagles club yesterday to try to clean something that he’s dubbed “Murder Stain,” and Luke has $30 worth of pull tabs with bad advice and bad jokes he’d like to share. 

Luke just realized that two characters in two different TV shows are played by the same actor, and it’s blowing his mind. Plus, pizza boxes haven’t changed since the 1960s, and one pizza advocate thinks they should.

Luke made an unannounced appearance on his neighbor’s porch yesterday, but don’t worry, he also acted totally weird.

An advertisement in Andrew’s copy of Reader’s Digest has Luke on a tear about “hater” culture. Plus, Pepsi is ditching Sierra Mist after 25 years, and Mark Duplass is following in TBTL’s footsteps with a new doc about the mystery of Larrimah, Australia.  

Luke and Andrew accidentally play an inappropriate game based on popular t-shirts from the 1990s.

Luke is in Las Vegas, where he’s experiencing a much different visit than the time he came here with Andrew. They also take a look at a lawsuit over a movie trailer that featured Ana de Armas, even though she didn’t appear in the actual film.

Luke solves a stain-related mystery, Andrew learns about a curious Frenchman who used to live in his neighborhood, and a writer for the New York Times is absolutely baffled by James Cameron’s frame-rate choices in the new Avatar movie. 

Luke is freaked out by a TV commercial that seems to be aimed directly at Andrew, and he’s puzzled by a local heating and cooling commercial set in space. Plus, new changes to bowling alley technology seem to make the sport less fun.

Luke and Andrew celebrate the Seahawks’ unlikely entry into the postseason with wildly optimistic predictions for the future.

Luke’s adventures at the gym this morning lead him and Andrew down a memory lane lined with the Croakie Straps and Vaurnet t-shirts of their youth. They also discuss the end of Funky Winkerbean, a comic strip close to Andrew’s heart.

Luke and Andrew are both back from their travels with many stories (and reviews of ill-gotten BBC TV shows) to share.

Luke and Andrew continue their journey through the chart-topping pop songs of yesterday and today in the final installment of the 2022 (or 2023?) TBTL Winter Games!

Listener Flash challenges Luke and Andrew with a Top 40 quiz that takes the boys through several decades (and a couple of Avatar movies.)