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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Best of Thanksgiving 2021

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Fry, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jen Psaki, and Chris Bosh are featured along with some never-before-heard moments with our panelists.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!

0:09.3

The NPR News Quiz.

0:10.8

Hey, everybody, join me for a feast, celebrating our good fortune in the new world.

0:16.6

I'm a Bill Grum, Bill Curtis, and here is your host, who promised his family that he

0:22.6

wouldn't serve Roastiel at Thanksgiving, even if it is historically accurate.

0:28.9

Peter Segal.

0:29.9

Thank you, Bill.

0:31.7

So it is that time of year when we take a minute to be thankful for all the good things

0:36.5

Providence has bestowed on us.

0:38.9

Which, as with the original pilgrims, is mostly really good radio segments.

0:44.1

Lackig modern transmitters, the pilgrims broadcast their shows by standing on Plymouth Rock

0:50.4

and shouting.

0:52.2

It is doubtful though, they had any guests as charming as the British actor, author, TV

0:57.1

presenter and all around know it all Stephen Fry, who joined us in July of this year.

1:02.1

Here is a special extended version of our chat.

1:05.5

It's a genuine pleasure, I'm thrilled to be here.

1:08.2

I ask this question of a lot of our guests, given yet you do all these different things

1:12.0

and have for many years, what is the thing that most people recognize you for if there is

1:16.5

one thing?

1:17.5

That's a really good question.

1:18.7

I mean, I get stopped in the streets and inked by these days a lot of parents because I

1:26.6

did the audiobooks of Harry Potter.

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