WWDTM Best Of: Summer Fun Edition

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

During this week that marks the beginning of summer fun, WWDTM revisits some of the funnest people we know., with Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody, as well as Este and Alana Haim.

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0:00.0	From NPR and ODB Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.
0:11.1	It's June, and the weather is heating up.
0:14.2	Get ready for a hot summer in the billy?
0:16.6	I'm Bill Curtis.
0:18.5	And here's a man convincing himself that technically a beach body is anybody you bring to the beach.
0:25.7	Peter Segal.
0:26.7	Thank you, Bill. The summer of 2020 was canceled.
0:30.4	Everybody is very excited for this summer, except we're rusty.
0:35.0	It's been a while since we've had very much, oh, damn it.
0:38.8	What is that word again?
0:39.9	Fun. F-U-N.
0:42.9	Now, from the early English word, meaning to kick back with some buds and bruise, crank the
0:49.8	tunes and maybe get out the slip-and-slide.
0:53.1	Right.
0:54.1	Fun. So we thought as a tutorial,
0:56.4	we'd bring you some of the most fun segments we've done in the last few months.
1:01.1	The top of that list was a visit with talk show hosts, Deezus and Merrill.
1:05.7	In March, the Bodega boys had rocketed from podcast hosts to their own premium cable show.
1:12.3	And as soon as Peter welcomed them, you could see why.
1:16.5	Truly, they are the click and clack of Generation Z.
1:20.6	Deezus and Merrill, welcome to Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:22.6	Thanks for having us.
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