INTERVIEW
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NPR'S PETER SAGAL
Prior to becoming host of
"Wait Wait" in 1998, Sagal had a
varied career, including stints as
a playwright, screenwriter, stage
director, actor, extra in a Michael
Jackson video, travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter and staff writer for a motorcycle magazine.
In October 2007, Harper Collins
published Peter's first book, "The
Book of Vice: Naughty Things
and How to Do Them," a series
of essays about bad behavior,
which was released in paperback
in 2008.
Sagal recently came full circle
in his relationship with motorcycles. After a love affair with riding
in his youth and early adulthood,
Sagal left motorcycling for years.
But a new TV series brought him
back to two wheels. In "Constitution USA," which premiered on
Tuesday, May 7 at 9 p.m. Eastern on PBS (www.pbs.org/tpt/
constitution-usa-peter-sagal/
home/), Sagal traveled across
the country by motorcycle in
search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how
it doesn't… how it unites us as a
nation and how it has nearly torn
us apart.
We caught up with Sagal to
find out about the new show and
his summer of fun at Cycle.
Back on a bike after all
these years, huh? Had you
not ridden since the days at
Cycle?
Not quite. I owned a motorcycle and rode around Southern
California through about 1988 or
'89. Then I moved on, got married, had kids and that was pretty
much the end of that. To this day
I think my wife misled me. When
I met her she was like, 'Oh, I love
