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| 0:00.0 | You are a human animal. |
| 0:07.6 | You are a very special breed, |
| 0:11.6 | or you are the only animal. |
| 0:15.0 | Who can think, who can reason, who can read. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to Book Worm. |
| 0:19.1 | This is Michael Silverblatt. |
| 0:20.9 | This is the show on which the cricket begins by singing a song for the worm. |
| 0:26.5 | And I have, as my guest here in the studio today, Roy Blount, Blunt, Blunt, Jr. |
| 0:34.0 | I was preparing all week to say Roy Blunt mispronounced Blount and then I mispronounced it myself. |
| 0:40.1 | It's mispronounced Blount. |
| 0:41.4 | Yes. He's the author most recently of Now Where Are We a New Book just out this month? |
| 0:50.4 | Previously of about three bricks shy of a load, crackers, where I fell into the crowd of admirers, |
| 0:59.0 | One Fell Soup, What Men Don't Tell Women, Which is the book that has the Family Jewel's essay? |
| 1:05.5 | That's One Fell Soup. |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, don't miss One Fell Soup and the essay on male genitals. |
| 1:13.9 | Yes? |
| 1:14.7 | Two out of three, male genitals, to be more precise. |
| 1:18.7 | It grows on you. |
| 1:20.9 | Not the essay, but the next name of a book. |
| 1:24.1 | Webster's Ark and Soup Songs and and not exactly what I had in mind. |
| 1:29.4 | I thought I'd begin by asking you who your favorite humorist is. |
| 1:35.3 | Ah, well, that's a little... I think it's there, I have various favorites for various reasons. |
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