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Sklar Brothers: The Hairy Back Contest

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By Madeleine Brand

Published August 12, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Day to Day sports reporting brothers Randy and Jason Sklar tell Madeleine Brand about their trip to the monkey cages of the Los Angeles Zoo, where they met Marc Lewis, the winner of the Hairiest Back in Los Angeles contest.

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Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).

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