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How To Do Everything

Reclaiming Poindexter

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How to prepare for the World Cup, and how to tell your parents you're getting married. Plus: the moon, the tides, and a man who wasn't entirely happy with a recent episode of "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bob, Anticipato, Palavagante,

0:02.6

Me too, Recaba, the Tiiro,

0:04.4

A-G-A-G-G-G-E-G-G-G-G-I-G-G-G-G-I-G-G-G-G-I-G-G-G-Gal,

0:08.0

this one in Italy.

0:13.8

I go, I go, I go and I go and go and go and go and

0:18.0

go and go and go and go.

0:20.0

Calling these soccer games is such a distinctive thing. How do announcers come up with their style?

0:27.6

Pablo Ramirez is calling the World Cup for Univision. He's online with us now. So Pablo, for people that haven't heard you call a game, can you just describe what your style is like?

0:39.3

It's like I didn't prepare nothing about the excitement. I prepared the game with the statistics, the history, but during the game is like spontaneous, natural is like a feeling the game the

0:56.2

game is flowing and I'm trying to flow with the game and you know I've I've heard

1:01.3

you and your enthusiasm is out of control.

1:05.0

Thank you.

1:06.0

Maybe the reason because I was working in this position,

1:11.0

I was trying to do a pro soccer player when I was a young boy in Mexico and I really feel this game like a big big passion.

1:22.0

Yeah. So Pablo when you were a child and you scored a goal what

1:27.6

would you say nothing because I was trying to be a goalkeeper and that's a strange situation.

1:35.0

I just was trying to stop all the balls.

1:40.0

And then I need to scream for all the goals.

1:43.3

So what would you scream?

1:44.3

What was your scream like?

1:45.3

Usually I have three different styles.

1:49.8

The first one is like a lot of very short screens like a goal goal goal was the first one then when I when I has a lot of air maybe the game is early

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