It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series,

A Hundred Years of a Hundred Things.

Today it's thing number 25. We're a quarter of the way there.

And it's a happy birthday edition of 100 things because just like WNYC, former President Jimmy Carter was born in 1924.

And tomorrow, October 1st, will be his 100th birthday. So happy birthday President Carter, first of all.

His health has reportedly been failing, but it's also been in the news that he's been wanting

to stay alive at least long enough to vote in his home state of Georgia, the swing state

of Georgia, to help Kamala Harris win the election.

He'll need a few days past his 100th birthday for that.

Mail and ballots go out in Georgia 29 days before the election,

so that would be one week from today if I did my math right.

So in this 100 years of Jimmy Carter segment, we'll do three things.

First, we'll talk about his early years,

the remarkable American story of someone from pretty humble and obscure beginnings, making it all the

way to president, how did his childhood set the stage for that. We'll also replay an appearance

by Carter on this show from 2010, a time when he had the courage, I'll call it the courage, to write a book

about and do whole interviews about arguably the worst thing in his presidency, the Iran hostage

crisis, which began in 1979 and the American hostages weren't released until Ronald Reagan was

inaugurated after defeating Carter in 1981.

And here we still are, of course, with Iran and the U.S., still basically at war,

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