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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Best of Not My Job February 2022

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week we highlight some of our favorite past segments with RZA, Yamiche Alcindor, and more. Plus we remember our friend and panelist PJ O'Rourke who died last week.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.7

It's definitely good to have more taste, but nobody wants less billing.

0:17.6

I'm Bill Curtis.

0:19.1

And here's your host to celebrate every President's Day by dressing up as James K. Polk.

0:25.4

It's Peter Sagole.

0:26.4

Thank you, Bill. President's Day is my favorite holiday of the year.

0:30.4

To commemorate 45 people unlucky enough to get a terrible job, the rest of us get to take the whole day off of work.

0:37.6

William Henry Harrison was the smartest president of all.

0:41.5

Get elected, have a party, die before anything bad can happen.

0:45.7

So while we take a moment to reflect on their achievements, we're going to look back at some of our own successes.

0:50.5

That is, some of the best stuff we have done in the last few months.

0:53.2

For example, in November, we were lucky enough to talk to the actor Ed Bigley Jr.

0:58.8

whose career spans five decades.

1:01.4

In fact, he's done so much.

1:03.6

Peter started by asking him which role he's most recognized for.

1:08.0

Probably St. Ellsburg, because it lasted the longest.

1:10.4

It was 140 some of our shows, I believe.

1:13.4

It was definitely six years, and I was in all the one episode.

1:16.7

So it was a good run.

1:17.9

And then other people like Pineapple Express, people like She-Devil,

1:21.9

people love Young Sheldon right now.

1:23.8

It's a very popular show.

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