#WaitWaitDontTellMe
Yup, #WaitWait is one of the best shows on #radio, and 10 points to @NPR for being on Mastodon! 💡
Late #FollowFriday and #ScreenshotSaturday of the PocketCast app playing #WaitWaitDontTellMe
Using the #PyCascades lunch break to do my weekly #WaitWaitDontTellMe listen, note taking and data entry stuff
Karen Chee hits it out of the park as a guest host of wait wait don’t tell me. https://overcast.fm/+Ys_pEYYbg
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WWDTM: Sam Waterston
On this week's episode, guest host Karen Chee talks with legendary actor Sam Waterston about Law & Order, how to look good in a stovepipe hat, and where to see raccoons doing Shakespeare.
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Some minor updates to the #WaitWait Stats, Graphs and Reports sites have been published, primarily to update CSS framework versions to the latest stable versions.
Wait Wait Stats Updates: March 2023
https://blog.linh.social/2023/03/16/wait-wait-stats-updates-march-2023/
Ugh. #WaitWaitDontTellMe bluf the listener round is a "cis allies try to make a man in a dress joke work and fail offensively"
Zero points
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Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll is a brilliant comedian and one of the minds behind Big Mouth and History of the World, Part II. We Rick Roll Nick Kroll, that is, ask him questions about roles played by actors named Rick.
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Someone added the bit about Maeve Higgins being the first panelist on #WaitWaitDontTellMe to get all 8 Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions wrong. I don't think that is correct.
Then again... I'm just random schmuck that takes some notes to a few #WaitWait episodes 🤷🏻♂️
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The Wait Wait Anthology: Reality TV Edition
On this episode of The Wait Wait Anthology, we bring the drama and dive deep into the world of reality TV. From The Bachelor to The Kardashians, we leave no stone unturned and no suite un-fantasied.
That one time about 10 years ago when The Daily Show with Jon Stewart spoofed on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!" with "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Him!"
I knew there was something familiar with one of the choices for the second Not My Job question on today's Wait Wait. It was about "the world's worst jigsaw puzzle" that was created by Simone Giertz
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Malala Yousafzai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize while in chemistry class
At the age of 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and now a documentary she executive produced is nominated for an Oscar. And, if she answers our three questions about puzzles correctly, she'll win the inaugural Nobel Pieces Prize....
My 1.5 seconds of fame when Paula Poundstone mentioned me, and the stats that I collect from #WaitWaitDontTellMe, on a Late Show with Stephen Colbert back in May 2017.
For those that don't know, I've maintained a version of a "#WaitWait Stats Page" since 2007. Current version is at https://stats.wwdt.me
At this point, I have around 99% of the Wait Wait shows that have aired from January 2000 through today. There are some shows that I couldn't pull from NPR's site.
I still need to find a way to get access to the 1998 and 1999 show audio and the missing episodes for 2000-2006.
Just went through the laborious process of renaming and re-tagging a bunch of #WaitWaitDontTellMe audio files from Jan 2000- Jan 2006.
Most of the files from the 2000-2002 shows were pulled from the old RealAudio files and transcoded to FLAC files to preserve quality. In order to get them to be usable on my phone or other devices, I transcoded them to MP3 @ 192 kbps and a minimum of 22 kHz.
For the Jan 2003- Jan 2006 shows, they were already in MP3 format from NPR; so, I left them as-is.
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Best of the First 25 Years
We celebrate our 25th anniversary with Mikeael Shiffrin, Leonard Nimoy, Mae Jemison, Stephen Colbert, John Hodgman, and Ozzie Smith.
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Everyone & Spotify Stalking
Comedian Dulcé Sloan and Emma give your playlists the side eye. Plus we ask Pitchfork Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel if you should be self conscious about your bad taste in music.
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Everyone & Spotify Stalking
Comedian Dulcé Sloan and Emma give your playlists the side eye. Plus we ask Pitchfork Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel if you should be self conscious about your bad taste in music.
Listening to #WaitWaitDontTellMe with Rosie Perez from a few weeks ago. Could be the most un-NPR episode ever, and it's wonderful. #NPR
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Feb. 18 w/ Rosie Perez
Discussion of Important #Squirrel News towards the end of the podcast.
This week’s episode of #WaitWaitDontTellMe is hilarious with guest host Alzo Slade
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157244228/rosie-perez-on-her-first-meeting-with-spike-lee
Josh Gondelman is a true gem and always one of my favorite panelists on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
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Rosie Perez
Rosie Perez is a cultural icon, from Do The Right Thing to White Men Can't Jump to her new role on Showtime's Your Honor. She's the best part of any project she's in, but can she answer our questions about advice columns?
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Geena Davis
Geena Davis went from being an Oscar-winning actor to a skilled archer to an activist to an author, and she's now executive producer of CBS' Mission Unstoppable. But, can she answer our three questions about blue jeans?
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The Wait Wait Anthology: Cats Edition
Introducing The Wait Wait Anthology, a deep dive into the Wait Wait archives hosted by Bill Kurtis
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Billy Porter
Billy Porter is an absolute legend. With a career that started in his teens, he's now 3/4ths of the way to an EGOT. He's also a style icon, who's always the most fashionable person in any room he's in. His new movie is 80 For Brady, but what does he know about the Brady Bunc...
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Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Lyonne is an actor, writer, and director with one of the most recognizable voices in the world. She stars in the new series Poker Face, so we ask her three questions about getting botox.
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Everyone & Mistaken Identity
Guest hosts Karen Chee and Josh Gondelman dive head first into alternate universes. Plus we get to the bottom of the Masters tournament mistaken identity kerfuffle.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Secretary of State Antony Blinken takes some time out from his busy schedule to tell panelists Dulcé Sloan, Eugene Cordaro, and Tom Bodett about his musical alter ego, ABlinken, and to answer three questions about Matthew Mcconaughey.
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George Saunders
Celebrated short story author George Saunders joins us to answer three questions about court stories. With panelists Paula Poundstone, Peter Grosz and Emmy Blotnick.
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Tonight's #podcast listening consists of @RadioFreeSkaro, #NPR #Shortwave, #WaitWaitDontTellMe (#WWDTM), #TheAncientWorld podcast, and #UniverseToday
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Mariska Hargitay
Mariska Hargitay, star of Law and Order, SVU, answers three questions about Sweet Valley High, the location depicted in the teen book series. We also revisit our moments with Sean Hayes, Myles Stubblefield, and Mo Amer.
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The Man Bill-hind the Voice!
Peter sits down with our very own judge and scorekeeper, Bill Kurtis, to learn about the legendary anchorman's life and career.
25 years ago today, #WaitWaitDontTellMe debuted on the air with Dan Coffey as the show's host and Carl Kasell as the scorekeeper.
On the panel were @PeterSagal, Roxanne Roberts and Roy Blount, Jr.
Unfortunately, audio of the first show is not available through NPR's website.
Show Info: https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/1998/1/3
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Best of Not My Job December 2022
In this episode, we revisit our times with Ralph Macchio, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the hosts of the podcast "Ear Hustle" Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor, and Matt Walsh.
Versions 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 of the #WaitWait Stats API v2 have been published.
Version 2.1.0 contains updates to dependencies, including using #FastAPI 0.88.0 and #wwdtm 2.0.8. It also includes some refactoring of how it pulls values from the configuration file, and allows contact information to be configurable.
Version 2.1.1 adds in some extra validation for the contact information.
Site: https://api.wwdt.me
Changelog: https://github.com/questionlp/api.wwdt.me_v2/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
I have published version 2.1.7 of the #WaitWait Graphs site. The bulk of the changes are behind the scenes stuff, such as upgrading required versions for a number of dependencies.
In addition, Plotly.js has been upgraded from 2.13.3 to 2.17.0.
Site: https://graphs.wwdt.me
Changelog: https://github.com/questionlp/graphs.wwdt.me_v2/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
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Sarah Polley
Actor and director Sarah Polley plays our game called "Sarah Polley, wanna cracker?" Three questions about parrots. Joining her are panelists Roxanne Roberts, Adam Burke, and Shane O'Neill.
Latest episode of #WaitWait still has not been published on the main podcast feed. The episode is available on the #WaitWaitDontTellMe Plus feed or available to listen to https://waitwait.npr.org
Hopefully #NPR can resolve the issue(s) that is causing the delay in the posting of the episode (especially over a holiday weekend) and the latest show appearing as subscription-only on Apple Podcasts.
I have been setting up a few bot accounts that monitor a number of different podcast feeds and publish a post when a new episode comes out. Below are a list of accounts, in case you are interested in following them:
@tbtl_podbot ➡️ #TBTL: Too Beautiful to Live
@waitwait_podbot ➡️ #WaitWaitDontTellMe
@livewire_podbot ➡️ #LiveWireRadio
@atm_podbot ➡️ #AfterTheseMessages
As I add more, I'll add them to this thread.
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Everyone & Improv Nerds
Emma and Vice columnist Alzo Slade try to solve the improv coolness crisis with the help of comedy icon Colin Mochrie. Plus: Emma tries her best to annoy Peter Sagal.
I have just published version 2.1.0 of the #WaitWait Reports site. The bulk of the changes are behind the scenes stuff, such as upgrading required versions for a number of dependencies.
In addition, I have also published a new panelist report titled "First Apperance Wins" that lists out panelists that have won outright or tied for first on their first appearance on the show from January 2000 onwards.
Panelist First Appearance Wins Report: https://reports.wwdt.me/panelists/first-appearance-wins
My 1.1 minutes of fame, courtesy WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME! The parents were so proud. #WaitWait #limerick #NPR #WBEZ #biology #fungi #dessert #FoodPhotography #WaitWaitDontTellMe
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Andrew Bird
Singer-songwriter and world class whistler Andrew Bird plays our game called, "Put Your Lips Together and Blow" Three questions about referees. Joining him are panelists Adam Burke, Tom Papa, and Zainab Johnson.
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I have set up two new accounts:
@tbtl_podbot sends out a post when a new episode of #TBTL hits their RSS feed.
@waitwait_podbot sends out a post when a new episode of #WaitWaitDontTellMe hits their public RSS feed (including any bonus episodes)
This day in #WaitWaitDontTellMe history:
On the #WaitWait that aired 20 years ago today, panelist Paula Poundstone had answered zero questions correctly during the show's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round. It was the first occurrence since January 2000 (scoring data is not available for shows prior to January 2000).
Both Paula and Maeve Higgins would go on and have two shows each where they have answered zero Lightning round questions correct.
Report: https://reports.wwdt.me/shows/lightning-round-zero-correct
@atomicpoet I used to post a lot of things that I found interesting when I collect and crawl through data and reports that I have for #WaitWaitDontTellMe on the bird site; but, I think my followers probably got tired of it. I have started that on here yet; but, may do so the show hits their 25th anniversary next year
@Lorenanicole @ThePSF #Python hobby developer here. I've built a set of websites and APIs for #WaitWaitDontTellMe Stats using Python and either #Flask or #FastAPI.
Stats Page: https://stats.wwdt.me
Graphs: https://graphs.wwdt.me
Reports: https://reports.wwdt.me
API: https://api.wwdt.me
Source for all of those projects are out on GitHub at https://github.com/questionlp