Peter Sagal

So much so that when he grew up, he got a job there.

And he loved that job so much that he started a TikTok celebrating the joys of reading.

And he was so good at that that he was selected to be the host of the new version of the beloved kids program, Reading Rainbow.

Michael, from one book nerd to another, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

So congratulations on Reading Rainbow, which just was relaunched by PBS on YouTube.

It's very exciting.

This must have been a thrill for you to get this job.

Did you grow up on Reading Rainbow like so many did?

He has that effect on people.

How was the torch passed?

Did LeVar Burton knight you with a bookmark or hand over the animated butterfly to you?

How did it work?

So it is genuine.

I think nobody doubts that.

You've talked a lot how the library was your sort of safe space as a kid.

And did you have a favorite book when you were a kid?

Well, how old were you when you got your first book tattooed?

And what was the first book you had tattooed?

Wow, wow.

And when you walked into the tattoo parlor at the age of 24 and you said, I would like this library card with Arthur the Aardvark, Arthur Reed, did the guy just look at you and say, oh, what a cliche?