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From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm the person everyone thinks of when they're asked what they're thankful for. Bill Curtis. And here is your host at the Studebaker Theater and the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagal. Thank you, Bill.
Oh, thank you, everybody. Thank you so much. We're all excited. Yes, it is Thanksgiving when people gather with family and express their gratitude that they no longer have to argue about the 2024 election. No, I'm kidding. We'll argue about it till we die.
But still, when it comes time for us to express our thanks, we go right to the fact that we've been doing this show for more than a quarter century. And despite that history, interesting people still agree to come on and subject themselves to our games.
For example, Eric Wyan-Mior, a man who climbed the tallest building on every continent and had many other adventures despite being blind. But as we discussed when he joined us in June, he was perhaps most famous for something else entirely. We first heard about you.
from a video that went viral in 2006. And we're going to play it for our audience. This is just a local newscast with someone who is announcing that they're going to interview you. Let's just listen.
Right after the break, we're going to interview Eric Weihandmayer, who climbed the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. He's gay.
I mean, he's gay, excuse me, he's blind. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, so a couple questions, a couple questions. I assume you've heard that before.
I've heard it a thousand times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what they didn't realize, they think it's funny, but I'm like, no way, man, you made my career. No one heard about climbing Everest, but everyone heard about my gay video.
Yeah, I guess. So I guess now that we've established that, I should say, first of all, happy pride. Secondly... So this local news anchor was going to interview you about your achievement of being the first blind person to climb Everest. Were you standing by as that was said? Did you hear her say that?
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