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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Best of WWDTM October 2021

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We look back on our time with Joel McHale, Dr. Ellen Stofan, Tariq Trotter, and Phillpa Soo. Plus we share more of our time with Dulcé Sloan from our live performace in Philadelphia last August.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR, I'm W.B.E.Z. Chicago. This is Weight Weight. Don't tell me. The NPR News Quiz.

0:11.0

Put your sweater on because the weather is getting a TUM Bill. I'm Bill Curtis. And here's

0:17.6

your host, a man who still can't tell the difference between Apple Juice and Apple Cider.

0:24.5

Peter Sagan.

0:25.5

Thank you Bill. I cannot believe it's October already. It seems like just yesterday we were

0:32.0

sitting around refusing to believe it was September. So as a reminder to ourselves that 2021

0:38.1

really happened, we are going to stop and look back on things we managed to do this year.

0:43.2

Personally, I measure out my life in coffee spoons. Solid gold coffee spoons. I have three

0:49.9

metric tons of them now. For example, we are relatively certain that in May of this year,

0:56.3

we talk to Joel McHale, who keeps switching back and forth from acting in shows like Community

1:00.8

to Hosting Talk Shows. He clearly loves an audience even when can.

1:05.3

Thank you for the clapping. You want to calm down? You've done so many things, but I actually

1:12.2

want to start with the thing that you're doing now. Right. Crime scene kitchen. Can you explain

1:19.0

this show to us? I'd like you to explain it. Thank you. So nice. No, it's called the crime

1:25.2

scene kitchen where it's a competition baking show. There's 12 teams of bakers and they

1:31.4

get to go into this thing called the crime scene kitchen and they have to make it dessert

1:35.5

while a person slowly bleeds out. You have to complete it before the person dies.

1:41.2

Okay. No, the bakers don't know what they're supposed to make, but in the crime scene kitchen,

1:47.2

there's something something has been baked there and there's evidence left like a little

1:51.1

pile of cocoa powder or like some fondant on a fork or like some wax paper with some sort

1:56.4

of pattern and then they kind of go, I think it's this dessert and then they go back and

2:01.8

they have to make it and then we see at the end of the round, we reveal what it was and

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