Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, creators of the new comedy series about E-sports, Players, on Paramount+ play our game about a C-sport: croquet. Joining them are panelists Peter Grosz, Adam Burke and Helen Hong.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is...
0:08.0	Wait, wait, don't tell me.
0:09.0	The NPR News Quiz.
0:11.0	Bueller, Bueller, Biller!
0:14.0	I'm Bill Curtis.
0:16.0	And here's your host at the Studebaker Theatre in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:21.0	Peter Segal.
0:22.0	Thank you, Bill.
0:24.0	Thank you, everybody.
0:25.0	Thanks for coming out.
0:27.0	Thank you, Cia.
0:29.0	Later on, today, we are going to be talking to the two men who first made Netflix's American Vandal,
0:36.0	a brilliant parody of the true crime documentary genre, and they've now made players in equally brilliant parody of sports documentaries.
0:44.0	They might have done a parody of public radio, but we in public radio do that ourselves pretty much every day.
0:51.0	We are eager to hear your take on somebody who calls up news quiz shows to try to win a voicemail.
0:56.0	So give us a call. The number is 1-triple-late. Wait, wait, that's 1-888-924-8924.
1:01.0	Let's welcome our first listener contestant.
1:03.0	How you around? Wait, wait, don't tell me.
1:04.0	Hi, this is Meredith calling from beautiful Benzikowni, Michigan.
1:08.0	Well, that's great. How are you, Meredith? Where is this place that you live again? What county of Michigan?
1:13.0	It's Benzikowni, just out of Trevor City.
1:16.0	Oh, and the beautiful North of Michigan. You're up near the like the Middle Finger.
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