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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Best of NMJ April 2022

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Chance The Rapper, Japanese Breakfast, and brothers Bashir and Sultan Salahuddin, plus Paula Poundstone thinks a story is baloney.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:11.9

It must be spring because the Daffo Bills are blooming.

0:16.8

I'm Bill Curtis.

0:18.3

And here's your host, a man who thought he'd be tending to an energy efficient garden

0:23.5

by planting fluorescent bulbs last fall.

0:27.1

It's Peter Sager.

0:28.1

Thank you, Bill.

0:29.1

It's spring at last.

0:30.5

In this year, while others are breaking out their seersucker suits and floppy sunhats,

0:34.9

we're going through a more difficult readjustment, like a bear coming out of hibernation.

0:39.4

I hate being awakened before I've finished burning up my reserves of stored fat.

0:44.8

So while we blink our eyes and stretch our creaky limbs, we thought we'd review some

0:48.6

of the great things that happened over the winter.

0:51.2

For example, in December of last year, we were joined live on stage by my sheer Enselton

0:57.1

Salahuddin, creators and stars of the Shuttaku set comedy South Side.

1:04.1

Thank you.

1:05.1

It's a pleasure to be here.

1:07.4

So let's start by talking about your background.

1:12.6

You guys grew up on the South Side, right?

1:14.5

Yes, we grew up on the South Side of Chicago in Gresham and one person in you.

1:22.0

One guy up there was like, just right, Gresham.

1:25.5

So you went to the UNA for college, you got into comedy, right?

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