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From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.

I'm the person everyone thinks of when they're asked what they're thankful for.

Bill Curtis, and here's your host at the Studebaker Theater and the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Segal.

Thank you, Bill. Oh, thank you, everybody. Thank you so much. We're all excited. Yes, it is Thanksgiving when people gather with family and express their gratitude that they no longer have to argue about the 20-24 election.

No, I'm kidding. We'll argue about it till we die. But still, when it comes time for us to express our thanks,

we go right to the fact that we've been doing this show for more than a quarter century.

And despite that history, interesting people still agree to come on and subject themselves to our games.

For example, Eric, Wyanmeor, a man who climbed the tallest building on every continent and had many other adventures despite being blind.

But as we discussed, what he joined us in June, he was perhaps most famous for something

else entirely. We first heard about you from a video that went viral in 2006, and we're going to

play it for our audience. This is just a local newscast

with someone who

is announcing that they're going to

interview you. Let's just listen.

Right after the break, we're going to interview

Eric Wyhan-Mayer, who climbed

the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest.

But he's gay.

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