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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

WWDTM: Eric Idle, Bridget Everett + Jeff Hiller, and more!

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, we invite everyone to take a much needed break and listen to interviews with Eric Idle, Bridget Everett + Jeff Hiller, Diane Lane, and more!

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Steve Inskeep.

0:03.0

Our team is in China, inside a historic Chinese trading city,

0:07.0

where people come from all over the world

0:09.0

to buy wholesale goods to import to their countries.

0:13.0

And we're here to find out, among other things,

0:15.0

how people are responding to tariffs on goods that go to the United States.

0:20.0

Listen for that report on Up First from NPR News.

0:28.2

From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.

0:34.8

I'm the guy who had to permanently retire from the wet t-shirt contest in Daytona Beach

0:40.8

so somebody else could win.

0:44.0

Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.

0:50.7

Peter Sagan.

0:51.6

Thank you, Bill.

0:53.3

Thanks, everybody. Who said only students get to celebrate

0:58.5

spring break? This week, we are giving you a well-deserved holiday from whatever the hell is going

1:03.6

on with the help of some amazing interviews from the past few years. While we elbow aside a bunch of

1:09.3

Florida State sophomores so we can be first in line for frozen margaritas,

1:14.6

here's a conversation with Eric Idol of Monty Python.

1:18.9

Now was a longtime Python fanatic. It was a dream come true for me to talk to him, and I only wished he could have joined us in person when we talked in October.

1:27.3

Turns out, he felt the same way.

1:29.3

I loved my time in Chicago.

1:31.3

I'm married to Chicago woman and I have lots of Chicago relatives.

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