Michelle Zauner

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Zauner, author and musician behind Japanese Breakfast, plays our game about Wheaties, the Breakfast of Champions. She is joined by panelists Faith Salie, Josh Gondelman, and Brian Babylon.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me The NPR News Quiz.
0:11.8	Forget your other systems of algebraic notation.
0:15.2	Get some BILLION logic.
0:17.7	I'm Bill Curtis, and here's your host, a fantastically handsome man and author of his own
0:24.6	intro, Peter Sagole.
0:26.3	Thank you, Bill, and a reminder our audience is, as always, fake except for you.
0:32.9	That's right.
0:33.9	Only you are real.
0:36.3	Later on, we're going to be talking to Michelle Zowner, who has a Jewish name, has written
0:40.3	a wonderful memoir about her Korean mother, and performs music under the name Japanese
0:45.3	Breakfast.
0:46.6	We have questions, and we will put them to her later on.
0:49.1	But first, we also have some questions for you.
0:51.2	So give us a call.
0:58.2	Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:06.2	Hey, Poojit, it's a pleasure to talk to you.
1:10.0	We're exactly as morseville.
1:11.0	We are a small suburb from Kerry, which is a small suburb of Raleigh, but we have the
1:14.0	airport, so we're important.
1:15.5	Oh, there you are.
1:16.5	Ha, ha, ha.
1:17.5	So if they want to get anywhere, they have to go through you first.
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