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🗓️ 5 March 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR and WBZ Chicago, this is Weight-Wake Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. |
0:10.8 | Filling in for Bill Curtis, I'm Chiochi Ianson, and I just got off the Midnight Train to Georgia. |
0:16.0 | Here is your host who took the 6am train to Georgia because it was cheaper, onstage, |
0:23.8 | at the FOTS Theatre in ATL. Here's Segal. Thank you everybody, thank you Chiochi, and thank you |
0:36.0 | actual human beings. It was almost exactly two years ago, March 12, 2020, that we were here |
0:47.0 | on stage at the FOTS Theatre in Atlanta doing our show in an empty auditorium because the |
0:51.9 | nation had decided that with this, quote, COVID thing, everybody should stay home till it was over, |
0:57.9 | you know, for a couple of weeks. We just got the okay to do the show with an audience just this |
1:04.9 | week, but fortunately we have been waiting backstage the entire time. Later on we're going to be |
1:11.8 | talking to Portia Williams, one of the realest housewives of Atlanta, but first we want to hear |
1:16.5 | you confess your deepest feelings to the camera, so give us a call. The number is 1-triple-8, |
1:21.4 | wait, wait, that's 1-888-9248-924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you're on |
1:26.4 | wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi, this is Brad from Sanford, Maine. Hey Brad, how are you? Where is |
1:31.3 | Sanford, Maine? Sanford, Maine is very southern Maine, like one town, inland from Kenabunk Fort, |
1:36.7 | where all the coaches hang out. Well, what do you do there in Sanford? I'm the director of the Sanford |
1:41.2 | Performing Arts Center. Oh, how very cool. We here in Atlanta are once again enjoying live audiences, |
1:49.0 | are you back to that at your Performing Arts Center? We're back and I'm actually directing a |
1:52.6 | high school production of Mama Mia right now, so. Yeah, and yeah, we're going to take it on the road |
2:00.1 | to the fabulous flocks in Atlanta. There you are. Well, I can say personally there are wonderful |
2:06.8 | generous audience and they have low standards, so you'll have a great time. All right, Brad, |
2:11.6 | welcome to the show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, a comedian you can |
2:16.3 | see in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, headlining the three S. Arts Space on April 23rd, and enrichment |
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