He Wanted to Be a Millionaire

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

How do you own your failures? Today on The Gist, Slate's Justin Peters finds meaning in his televised humiliation he experienced on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. He recently wrote about the experience of losing $225,000 on in his story I Wanted to Be a Millionaire: How failing colossally on a game show changed my life for the better. Justin is part of the improv comedy duo From Justin To Kelly. For the Spiel, a few insights to add to the ample coverage of the Brian Williams story. Complete Slate's podcast listener survey! Tell us about yourself and your favorite podcasts so that Slate can serve you better. We'd appreciate two minutes of your time. Go to slate.com/survey. Today's sponsors: Stamps.com. Sign up for a no-risk trial and get a $110 bonus offer, when you visit Stamps.com and enter promo code TheGist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Car! What are you doing?
0:03.3	What's that, sir, gay?
0:04.8	What are you doing?
0:06.3	Just following the lawn.
0:07.8	I'm already going to rid of those hideous weaves!
0:10.0	Oh, they don't wait! They're flowers!
0:12.7	I can't hear you, bro, but watch out!
0:14.7	I'm just getting the rest of them!
0:16.5	But they're phillyms!
0:18.0	I rode the dead ones!
0:20.7	They let away!
0:23.2	My award-winning hydrangeas!
0:25.6	Oh!
0:26.8	Don't warm-bat it.
0:28.1	Meer-hat it!
0:29.2	Simple!
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0:47.2	The following podcast contains explicit language.
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