The Many, Many Ways to Think About Running

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, a historian at the White House Correspondents' Dinner? Why not? When a young Peter Sagal was labeled "not great at sports," it didn't sit well with him. But if that drove him to running in the first place, he now has plenty of reasons to keep up the pace—not the least of which is that it's a good thing to think, talk, and write about. Sagal is the host of NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! and the author of The Incomplete Book of Running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What you're about to listen to may include some potty talk.
0:05.0	Then again, it may not.
0:06.5	I hope it does though.
0:07.5	["Minecraft Theme Song"]
0:11.1	It's Tuesday, November 20, 2018, from Slate.
0:13.8	It's the gist I'm Mike Pasca.
0:15.8	The White House correspondence dinner
0:17.5	will no longer feature a comedian, but an historian,
0:21.9	or, depending on your pronunciation, a historian.
0:24.8	Although, if the White House correspondence dinner
0:27.2	really wanted a night without laughs,
0:29.4	he could have just re-booked the 1996 MC, Don I miss.
0:34.1	What reminds me of poor old John Warner?
0:36.7	The Senator Mary's Elizabeth Taylor,
0:38.6	one of the most beautiful women in the world.
0:41.3	Three weeks later, he comes home,
0:42.8	she's sitting in the kitchen playing Dela Mule
0:44.6	with Richard Simmons.
0:46.3	I mean, how do you get that fat, that fast,
0:49.0	and not live in a trailer?
0:50.5	Ooh, different time, different time.
0:53.7	When the histories are written, we will, I believe,
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