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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Wait Wait Naked and Ashamed: Amy Dickinson and Roy Blount, Jr.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Faith Salie talks with Amy Dickinson about the time Peter set her up on a blind date and Roy Blount Jr. reveals his secret life as a rock star.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, hi, it's Faith.

0:07.0

Oh my god, hey.

0:09.0

Welcome to Weight Weight, naked and ashamed.

0:12.0

I'm Faith Saley.

0:14.0

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0:18.0

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0:33.0

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0:37.0

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0:40.0

When I called Amy Dickinson, she was visiting New Orleans and talking to me from a pretty unusual spot.

0:47.0

I'm in my friends' closet and currently trying on all of her lipsticks.

0:55.0

When she's not hiding in friends' closets, Amy is the advice columnist for the Chicago Tribune and a long time weight panelist.

1:02.0

She got her start being funny when she was growing up on a dairy farm in upstate New York.

1:08.0

I come from a very funny family.

1:11.0

Not like pranks, we don't do pranks, we don't do practical jokes, but there's a lot of...

1:18.0

I guess you could call it wit.

1:20.0

Is it wit when you haven't read enough books or just funny?

1:25.0

Just people.

1:26.0

Wait, how many women did you grow up around and girls?

1:29.0

My mother was one of four sisters and we all live in the same town and I have two sisters and lots and lots of female cousins.

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