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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz. |
0:10.6 | I'm letting you know it's time for our radio show. |
0:14.0 | I'm your courtesy call, Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Student Baker Theatre, |
0:20.1 | the Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago, Illinois. |
0:23.3 | It's Peter Segal. |
0:24.3 | Thank you Bill. |
0:25.3 | Thank you everybody. |
0:27.3 | So, we are still off on our summer break, and we are spending it standing outside the White House, |
0:34.3 | waiting to be invited inside for the inevitable presidential celebration of our 25 years on the air. |
0:42.3 | Ain't no party like a Biden party because a Biden party don't stop. |
0:50.3 | So, while we wait for the president to wave us all in, we will share with you more the reasons |
0:55.3 | he should do it, with highlights from our first 25 years on the air, including stuff that remains relevant today. |
1:02.3 | For example, this summer marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of the first album by Queen. |
1:08.3 | So, enjoy this conversation with founding guitarist Brian May, who joined us in 2017 to talk to us about his other |
1:17.3 | enthusiasm, like 3D photography. |
1:22.3 | Thank you very much. |
1:23.3 | I spent a good part of the yesterday evening with your book of these amazing stereoscopic photos, |
1:29.3 | and the great little viewer that comes with them, enjoying these 3D pictures of your band and its history, |
1:35.3 | and Freddie Mercury, and your other friends and musicians, and I have one thing to ask you, |
1:39.3 | how is it that in all the years that you've been in the public eye, your hair has never changed? |
1:45.3 | Did anybody ever came to you and said, Brian, you know, now it's 1990s, we need to cut your hair. |
1:50.3 | Yeah, they do it all the time, but I have a good answer for that, but it's probably not repeatable on your phone. |
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