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hat with a buckle look sexy. I'm your Bill Grimm, Bill Curtis and here's your host at the Souda

The Bakers Theater in downtown Chicago Peter Siegel. Thank you Bill

thank you everybody so even though it's Thanksgiving week, we are still focused on celebrating our 25th anniversary year.

As it says, in the Book of Leviticus, every 25th year a radio show shall lay down its burdens and review

its past segments.

You wouldn't believe the crazy stuff in Leviticus.

Did you know it's a sin to have a voice this sultry?

If it isn't, it should be.

So let's begin this Jubilee with a trip back to 2009 when we went to Hartford, Connecticut

to interview one of the original stars of Saturday Night Live, Jane Kirk.

Do you realize that Saturday Night Live is as old as Jesus?

Hmm.

That's terrifying. That also doesn't bode well for its immediate future.

I did want to ask though, 33 years ago, like you said I mean it was it wasn't just a TV show

It was this huge cultural moment and and and when you look back on it. I don't know if you look back on it. I mean how do you can't see that far? No really.

I mean when you think about it you're like wow that was a great thing and we were

just lucky it was just a TV show we went on or was it like wow that was like a

moment that was an amazing thing that I was a part of.

I you know I get carried away by what other people say about it.

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