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Le Show For The Week Of April 21, 2024

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Music, Society & Culture, Tech News, Sports

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on Le Show, Harry Shearer brings News of the Olympic Movement, and takes another backward look into the archives with Brian Williams Misremembers, Dick Cheney Confidential, The Entrepod, The Mar-a-Lago Diet, conversations with Siri, and more!

Transcript

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Here it is.

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From deep inside your audio device of choice.

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And now news of the Olympic Movement.

0:15.0

Produced by Jam Members all the third. Well, you know the Olympics, right?

0:24.0

Well, you know the Olympics, right? It's all about numbers.

0:37.0

Precision in numbers, you know, whether somebody wins or loses.

0:42.0

This from the Associated... whether somebody wins or loses.

0:46.0

This from the Associated Press, with sunset in moonlight gleaming on the river,

0:50.0

the grandiose opening ceremony

0:52.0

for the Paris Olympics will last nearly four hours.

0:57.0

That is the lead sentence of this story from the Associated Press.

1:05.0

The third paragraph begins,

1:08.0

proceedings begin at 3.45 PM

1:12.0

and finish at 11.15 p.m.

1:20.0

That says 7.5 hours. That's seven and a half hours

1:42.2

But the first paragraph said it will last nearly four hours Maybe the difference is accounted for by the fact that artistic performances, their words, will proceed the athletes parade.

1:44.0

10,500 athletes will have disembarked from boats.

1:55.4

The final part of the ceremony takes place at the Trocadero Plaza

1:58.5

overlooking the Eiffel Tower.

2:02.2

I guess it would be underlooking at the Eiffel Tower. It's taller than everybody there.

2:07.0

Aside from all that, the AP reports their attention surrounding the safety of the ceremony.

2:15.0

Late last month, France raised its security readiness to the highest level,

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