Andrew Bird

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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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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0:00.0	From NPR and WBZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.
0:10.9	I'm not Gen Z, I'm Gen B, Bill Curtis.
0:17.6	And here is your host at the Souta Baker Theatre at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago,
0:25.3	from the greatest generation Peter Seigaw. Thank you, Bill.
0:32.1	Thank you everybody. We have a great show for you today.
0:37.0	Of course, later on we're going to be joined here on stage by Chicago's own Andrew Bird,
0:42.9	the acclaimed musician who is among many, many other things, the greatest whistler alive.
0:50.4	He is to whistling what Bill Curtis is to just talking. That's how I praise indeed.
0:59.5	We want you to whistle while we work, so give us a call. The number is 1-triple-late, wait,
1:04.2	wait, wait, that's 1-888-924-8924. And let's welcome our first listener contestant.
1:09.4	How you were on, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
1:11.2	Hi Peter, how are you? It's Skydapalbom.
1:13.0	Peace.
1:13.8	Hey, how are things? And one of our favorite cities, Philly.
1:16.5	Oh, Peter, it's always sunny in Philadelphia.
1:18.6	I've heard that. I've heard that. What do you do there?
1:23.1	I work in pharmaceuticals. I'm a pharmaceutical lawyer.
1:26.0	Are you really? What sort of devious things do pharmaceutical lawyers have to do?
1:31.8	We're the ones who make sure that we don't do the devious things. We just spend our time
1:35.8	helping everyone that's helping people.
1:37.4	Oh, that is a good line.
1:42.0	Let me introduce you to our panel this week's god. First, his new stand-up comedy special,
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