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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Best of the First 25 Years

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate our 25th anniversary with Mikeael Shiffrin, Leonard Nimoy, Mae Jemison, Stephen Colbert, John Hodgman, and Ozzie Smith.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR at WDB Easy Chicago, this is Weight, Weight, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

0:11.2

It's our 25th year on air, which means it's our builder anniversary.

0:18.2

And here's the man who desperately wants you to believe he's been hosting this show for

0:23.8

only half his life.

0:26.4

Peter Sago.

0:27.4

Thank you Bill.

0:28.4

And thanks everyone.

0:31.4

It's true.

0:32.4

It is.

0:33.4

2023 marks the 25th anniversary of Weight, Weight, don't tell me, a show that launched in January

0:39.1

1998 so long ago, we originally broadcast in black and white.

0:46.0

It was news quiz noir.

0:48.9

So today, as part of our year-long global celebrations, we're going to go back into the archives

0:54.0

to present just a few of the highlights from that long history.

0:56.9

And we are starting with one that meant a lot to Bill.

1:01.0

It was 2014.

1:02.6

I had just joined the show and thought I'd slub it a while before returning to my usual

1:08.0

day job, providing the voice of God.

1:11.6

But then, they told me we were going to Red Rock.

1:16.8

While Bill marveled at the legendary surroundings at the natural amphitheater outside of Denver,

1:22.2

I got to talk to skier Michaela Schifrin, then just a 19-year-old Olympic phenomenon,

1:28.0

and now the winningest female skier in history.

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