WWDTM: Tara Dower

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4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, record-breaking ultrarunner Tara Dower talks speed-hiking the Appalachian Trail with Negin Farsad, Faith Salie, and Peter Grosz

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ayesha Harris from Pop Culture Happy Hour.
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0:33.4	I'm Joshua Johnson, filling in for Bill Curtis.
0:36.2	And here's your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:41.8	Peter Sago!
0:43.6	Thank you, Joshua.
0:46.4	Wow.
0:49.3	Thank you.
0:50.4	I appreciate that.
0:51.7	We really do have a very fine show for you today.
0:53.8	Later on, we're going to be talking to Tara Dower, the ultra runner, who just set the record for running the entire Appalachian Trail. But first, we want to welcome Joshua Johnson filling in for Bill Curtis this week. Joshua, you were, of course, with NPR for a while, the original host of 1A. So what is it like coming back to NPR just for the day?
1:13.2	Did you miss us?
1:13.8	It is fantastic.
1:14.9	Some of you know I went over to television for a while, and it's just, it's not the same.
1:18.8	They don't give away tote bags.
1:20.0	They can't do an 11-minute interview to save their lives.
1:23.4	Amateurs.
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