Episode 37: Peter Sagal

The Runner's World Show

Runner's World / Panoply

Sports

4.3 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s news quiz, Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, joins the show to talk about the boom in audio (and podcasts), his own running career, and how the sport helped during his toughest year ever. (2:06) We go on a real grocery shopping trip with Runner’s World editors, dissecting the good and bad of how well we stock our runner pantries. (42:33) In the Kick, a new running hub near Central Park in New York City, key running dates to celebrate in 2017, and a unique 256-mile relay to Washington D.C. (1:00:02) The Runner’s World Show is brought to you by Blue Apron, the No. 1 fresh ingredient and recipe delivery service in the country. Check out this week’s menu and get your first 3 meals free—with free shipping—by going to blueapron.com/run. And by Aaptiv, an on-demand audio fitness app that you can do at home, at the gym, outdoors—anywhere. Get your first month free when you sign up for a monthly subscription at aaptiv.com and use the promo code “RUN.” Episode Credits: Host: David Willey Producers: Sylvia Ryerson, Christine Fennessy and Brian Dalek The Runner's World Show is a proud part of Panoply. Check out our show page here. Follow us on Twitter (@rwaudio) and Facebook (Runner's World Audio). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Runner's World Show, where each week we entertain you, inspire you, and inform you about all things running.
0:09.1	I'm David Willie, editor-in-chief of Runner's World. This week, our producer Brian Dalek's food shopping habits go under the microscope.
0:17.0	Then in the kick, a cool new runner hangout opens in New York City.
0:21.6	But first, my interview with Peter Sagal, host of NPR's News Quiz, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
0:27.8	Peter is not only one of the sharpest, funniest, and most successful radio hosts working today, but he's also a runner, a marathoner, in fact, and a Boston qualifier.
0:39.9	Peter and I have a wide-ranging conversation about the rise of audio, his own start as an on-air
0:45.5	personality, why comedians who run tend to not be very funny about their running, and how
0:52.5	running helped him through the hardest year of his life.
0:55.0	Running provided me with a reason quite literally to get out of bed some days when I really couldn't conjure up one.
1:01.0	Running gave me a community with my friends. It gave me purpose. It gave me something to focus on.
1:06.0	And it gave me, how best to put this, the practice of persistence, which became very necessary.
1:15.5	Stick around. Thanks for joining us.
1:24.9	To many of you podcast listeners, Peter Sagle needs no introduction. He is the host of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the weekly NPR news quiz. Just this month, the show celebrated its 19th anniversary, and Peter has been its host just about that entire time. Readers of Runner's World also know that Peter writes the Rhodes Scholar column for the
1:45.9	magazine. And believe me, he has explored just about every running angle you can think of in those
1:51.5	pieces with his characteristic wit and uniquely perceptive take on our sport and its characters.
2:07.0	Peter Sagle, so great to talk to you.
2:09.0	Thank you for joining us on the Runner's World Show.
2:10.2	My pleasure.
2:15.3	I owe my career in running journalism to a strange idea you had many years ago, so I'm at your service.
2:16.1	Well, of course, we're going to talk about running, but first, I do want to talk to you a
2:20.4	little bit about your show.
2:21.7	I am a huge fan of Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and have been for years.
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