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🗓️ 14 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Weight Weight Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz. |
0:11.0 | Hey, you've put in the work and watched what you ate. |
0:15.0 | Time to show off your beach billy. |
0:18.0 | I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host, a man who tattooed his six-pack on. |
0:24.0 | Peter Sagan. |
0:25.0 | Thank you, Bill. It is August the only month without any federal holidays, and in protest over this injustice, we are taking time off anyway. |
0:35.0 | We will continue to do so until the government finally gives Herbert Hoover's birthday official status. |
0:42.0 | Born August 10th, 1874, President Hoover's chief achievement is really not seeming that bad anymore, if you grade on a curve. |
0:53.0 | We are taking to the streets because that's how you get down to the beach. |
0:57.0 | So in the meantime, we've got some fantastic stuff we would like to share with you. |
1:01.0 | When comedian and actor Zach Galaphanakis joined this show between two ferns, which was either a parody of a cable access talk show or just a cable access talk show, had just been made into a movie. |
1:16.0 | So we have a hooter, it's all right. |
1:23.0 | So I watch the movie, which is hilarious, and has a bunch of between two ferns interviews. |
1:28.0 | And celebrities actually want to be on your show, right? They want to come and do this. |
1:33.0 | I don't know. I mean, I don't really know why they would want to do it. |
1:40.0 | But it's not a prank show. I'm not trying to prank anyone. |
1:44.0 | And if I understand correctly, you tell the celebrities, their job is basically to sit there and just... |
1:50.0 | Well, I tell the video have to be funny. They just have to sit there and be weirded out. |
1:57.0 | Yeah. |
1:59.0 | And we will give them insults to give back to me. |
2:03.0 | But sometimes in the moment we just get talking and the insults kind of fly naturally. |
2:10.0 | I've cut an interview short because the person, and I don't want to reveal who it was, |
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