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🗓️ 24 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR and W.B. Easy Chicago, this is Weight, Weight, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz. |
0:11.3 | Say what you want, Bernie Sanders. You'll never take down this billionaire. |
0:17.0 | Bill Trevitt. And here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago. Peter's |
0:29.2 | Tegal. Thank you, Bill. Thanks everybody. |
0:31.2 | It's that time of the year when everybody goes, wait a minute. Summer's almost over and then |
0:39.8 | they all run around like maniacs trying to pack as much fun as they can into the short |
0:43.8 | time remaining. That's what we're doing in this hour. We're packing in so many memorable |
0:48.7 | moments and great conversations that well by the time we're done you'll be ready to go |
0:53.5 | back to work just to get a break from all the joy. First up, when I was growing up I loved |
1:01.2 | Jacques Cousteau, the famous ocean explorer. Now so did Fabian Cousteau which makes more |
1:06.4 | sense because Jacques was his father. When Fabian Cousteau joined us in June of last year, |
1:12.1 | Peter asked him how he was introduced to the undersea world. |
1:16.0 | Well, my fourth birthday, it's slightly different. I actually went to the bottom of the pool |
1:20.9 | with a family friend who was reading the newspaper while I was buddy breathing with him. |
1:25.1 | Buddy breathing is when you're sort of sharing one respirator back and forth, right? |
1:29.5 | That's correct. And he's reading a newspaper at the bottom of a pool? |
1:33.0 | Yeah, I guess he was bored. There's not much to see at the bottom of the pool. We didn't |
1:36.0 | throw any fish in there. I understand. Did you always want to go into what I guess is |
1:40.8 | the family business and the Cousteau family? I was actually never pressured to be in the |
1:47.0 | family business. I was always encouraged to forge my own path. But the path always ended |
1:51.5 | up turning back towards what we do as a family. |
1:54.7 | That's funny. I'm just going to say this because I grew up watching your grandfather's |
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