Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty
Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Timestamps stay in sync with the live audio
This week on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me we talk with our panel Josh Gobelman, Dulce Sloan, and Faith Saley about the journalists who were banned this week from the White House. You think they were really sad or is it one of them days it was like a snow day as a kid? Yeah. They just like They were probably just forgetting what stale Big Mac smells like. Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our games.
Listen to the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me podcast and the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tani Mosley. There she is. Miss Samarita.
There she is. Your ideal. The dream of a million girls who are more than pretty. Come true and at least, for she may turn out to be the Queen of Women. There was a time when the Miss America Pageant was the biggest show in America.
We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (50 minutes, 7,282 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.
No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.