Wait Wait Naked and Ashamed: Bill Kurtis

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today, legendary anchorman Bill Kurtis tells Faith Salie about the tornado that changed his life and how Taco Bell almost ruined it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Weight Weight, naked and ashamed.
0:03.5	Bill Curtis, the man, the myth, the legend.
0:07.4	I'm the Bill that never gets vetoed.
0:11.0	Bill Curtis.
0:12.5	And here is your host at the Chaseback Auditorium.
0:15.5	Okay, so Bill, I thought the best way to get into this
0:19.0	would be sort of in an homage to bluff the listener.
0:23.0	Why don't you tell me two truths in a lie?
0:27.0	Well, I got my start with the tornado.
0:31.0	It was in Topeka, Kansas.
0:33.0	In 1966.
0:35.0	Yeah, I am happy to begin position to give the warning for God's sake, take cover.
0:40.0	I know that truth.
0:41.0	You're famous, truly.
0:42.0	How did you say for God's sake, take cover?
0:45.0	For God's sake, take cover.
0:47.0	And I have gone back to look at the Kinescope or whatever it was.
0:51.0	I don't think we had videotape in those days.
0:53.0	At least smaller than two inch.
0:56.0	But that was my first television job.
0:59.0	And I was studying for the bar, having gone to law school, while working as a weatherman
1:05.0	and an announcer in the news.
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