Glenn Close
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
NPR
4.6 • 37.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From NPR, a W-D-E-Z Chicago, this is Weight, Weight, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. |
| 0:11.0 | Step aside, Schlitz, I'm the bill that made Milwaukee famous. |
| 0:19.1 | Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| 0:32.9 | It is wonderful to be back in Milwaukee, especially as this is the weekend of Harley Fest. |
| 0:41.1 | If you've never been to a huge gathering of Harley riders, well it kind of looks like |
| 0:46.8 | a nursing home for leather daddies. |
| 0:52.4 | Which is fine, nothing wrong with that. |
| 0:54.4 | Later on we're going to be talking to an actor who first made a name for herself |
| 0:58.0 | in a production of King Lear right here in the Milwaukee rep back in the 70s. |
| 1:02.0 | Her name is Glenn Close. |
| 1:04.0 | We'll be talking about it. |
| 1:07.2 | The first we're interested in the deep secrets of your past, so give us a call. |
| 1:11.2 | The number is 1-888-8-8-924-8924. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm to welcome our first listener contestant. |
| 1:18.4 | Hi, you were on Weight, don't tell me. |
| 1:20.4 | Hi, this is Paul Larson. |
| 1:21.6 | I teach physics at Pre-Berber's College here in popular Bluff, Missouri. |
| 1:26.0 | Well that's exciting. |
| 1:27.2 | Okay, you're a physics teacher. |
| 1:28.4 | Yes. |
| 1:29.2 | Okay, I have to ask you a question to someone who has studied physics a long time ago. |
| 1:34.0 | I know you teach it, do you understand it? |
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