4.6 • 35.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz. |
0:11.0 | Hey there, bed and Franklin, invent me. I'm a pair of Bill Focals. |
0:17.0 | Bill Curtis. Now, here is your host, who's just a man standing outside in front of thousands of people asking them to love him. |
0:29.0 | At the TD Pavilion, at the Man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it's Peter Segal. |
0:37.0 | Thank you Bill. Thank you everybody for the first time in a year and a half. Thank you actual people. |
0:48.0 | We are here in Philadelphia, outside at the Man Center, where because we are still not out of the woods or audiences wearing masks, |
1:01.0 | so if you don't hear them laughing up, it's just because the sound is muffled. |
1:06.0 | Later on, we are going to be talking to Larry Krasner, who spent 30 years fighting the district attorney in Philadelphia as a defense lawyer before getting elected to the job in 2017. |
1:16.0 | We'll ask if he's ready to apologize for all the mean things he said about himself. |
1:21.0 | But first, we want to ask you some questions. Give us a call. The number is 1-triple-8. Wait, wait, that's 1-888-924-8-924. |
1:28.0 | Let's welcome our first listener contestant. How you are on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. |
1:32.0 | Hi Peter, this is Rebecca Collins from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
1:36.0 | Really? |
1:39.0 | Are you really from Philadelphia or are you just sucking up? |
1:42.0 | I am really from Philadelphia. I'm about a mile from you all at the Man Center right now. |
1:47.0 | Oh really? And what do you do here in Philadelphia? |
1:49.0 | I just moved here to progress school. I'm going to go to school for social work. |
1:54.0 | Oh wow, you just moved to Philadelphia. |
1:57.0 | And I ask this without drawing your attention to the few thousand Philadelphia's who are listening, what do you think of Philadelphia? |
2:05.0 | So far so good. |
2:07.0 | There you are. |
2:08.0 | We have brotherly love, a lot of friendly neighbors. |
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