Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Our friends at NPR's news quiz Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! recently had a very Planet Money guest on their show: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. They asked her about smoking pot, her extremely high scores in Candy Crush, and when to expect the Harriet Tubman $20 bill.

Today, we're sharing an excerpt of that episode with you, along with some exclusive questions just for Planet Money listeners.

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0:17.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:20.0	Hey everyone, Gonzalez here with a teaser for another NPR show because it has a very
0:29.2	Planet Money type of guests and we thought you might enjoy it. Our regular Planet Money
0:34.1	episode will still show up as usual on Wednesday, but NPR's news quiz, wait
0:39.2	wait don't tell me, got Secretary of the Treasury and former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to take their
0:45.6	not my job quiz. They've shared that segment with us along with a few exclusive outtakes
0:51.1	just for Planet Money listeners. I'm not going to spoil it, but it does involve
0:55.0	her shocking skill at Candy Crush, possibly taking psychedelic mushrooms and Harriet Tubman
1:02.0	on the $20 bill.
1:03.6	Here's host Peter Siegel and panelists on NPR's,
1:06.6	wait, wait, don't tell me.
1:09.1	And now the game we call not my job.
1:11.0	Jenny Yellen is a preeminent economist, a former chair of the President's Council of Economic
1:16.3	Advisors and chair of the Federal Reserve and is now the 78th Treasury Secretary of the
1:22.1	United States. That means she signs all of your
1:24.6	dollar bills and fun facts she gets to read all your Venmo receipts.
1:28.6	Secretary Yellen welcome to wait wait don't tell me.
1:32.8	Thank you.
1:33.8	Thank you Peter.
1:35.8	Thank you very much.
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