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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

WWDTM: Sam Sanders & Zach Stafford

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with special guests Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford and panelists Tom Papa, Paula Poundstone, and Emmy Blotnick

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0:00.0

This election season you can expect to hear a lot of news some of it meaningful much of it not

0:06.4

Give the up-first podcast 15 minutes sometimes a little less and we'll help you sort it out what's going on around the world and at home.

0:14.4

Three stories, 15 minutes, up first every day.

0:18.0

Listen every morning, wherever you get your podcasts. from NPR and W be easy Chicago. This is Wait Wait Don't Tell Me the

0:29.8

NPR News Quiz. I'm the voice on Bill Curtis's voicemail.

0:34.1

Chioki I Anson, and here is your host

0:36.9

at the Student Baker Theater and the Fine Arts Building

0:39.5

in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Siegel.

0:42.4

Thank you, Chiroki.

0:45.0

And thank you everybody.

0:47.0

Ah, that's what really helps our show, day drinking.

0:53.4

Later on on our show today, we are going to be speaking to two of the hosts of the

0:58.5

Hit Podcast, Vibe Check, Zach, Stafford, and Sam Sanders.

1:02.8

Now Sam, of course, used to be a colleague of ours at NPR,

1:06.0

and I am so excited to ask him what it is like to finally be able to swear into a microphone and then watch his reaction when he

1:17.0

realizes that he can't again. But first we want you to watch your manners when you call in to play our games.

1:25.2

The number is 1,000,000, 8,000, 888,924, how you are on, wait, wait, don't tell me.

1:30.4

Hey, my name's Mary Elizabeth, and I'm calling from Annandale Virginia.

1:34.0

Great, what do you do there in Annandale? So I work for a legal services nonprofit and

1:40.4

he sees an executive assistant. Well, that's cool.

1:43.0

That's good work.

1:44.0

So you help people who need legal services but cannot normally afford them?

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