Most people stop using pagers decades ago, but in a lot of hospitals the pager is still the way you reach doctors in an emergency.

A classic thing is like, never got the page, you know, where were you? Never got the Page.

Why is it so hard for doctors to let go of their pagers?

That's on the Planet Money Podcast from NPR.

This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Comedian and actor Keenan Thompson is often referred to as the glue that holds Saturday Night

Live together.

He's been on SNL for 21 seasons, making him the longest running cast member in the show's history,

with his popular bank of characters like Darnell Hayes, the fictitious host of Black Jeopardy,

or Deandre Cole, the game show host who sings

What's Up with that? What's up with that? Kienen has entertained us for most of his life.

Keenen has entertained us for most of his life.

First acting in commercials starting at just

five years old and later on Nickelodeon with shows like all that in Keenan and

Kel. Of course that's the story most of us know. In his new book, Keenan takes us behind the curtain,

revealing for the first time stories that he's never shared before, like a dark financial

period in the early 2000s that almost ruined him, the time he thought

about giving up acting altogether and what really happened between him and his longtime

co-star Kell Mitchell.

Keenan Thompson's new book is called

When I was Your Age, Life Lessons,

Funny Stories, and Questionable Parenting Advice

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