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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Dan Snow

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

British historian Dan Snow, a member of the team that discovered Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, plays our game about the artists lost at the bottom of the Lollapalooza lineup. He is joined by panelists Luke Burbank, Emmy Blotnick and Roxanne Roberts.

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0:00.0

From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Weight Weight, don't tell me.

0:09.4

The NPR News Quiz, you're about to get defamed.

0:13.5

I'm committing live bill.

0:15.8

I'm Bill Curtis.

0:17.1

And here is your host, a man who just got weight listed for Mensa.

0:22.0

It's Peter Segal.

0:23.0

Thank you, Bill.

0:24.9

And thanks again, fake audience.

0:27.5

You may have heard that a couple of weeks ago, explorers discovered the long-lost wreck

0:32.2

of the HMS endurance, the ship commanded by famed Antarctic Explorer Ernest Chakleton.

0:37.0

Well, in a feat just as impressive, we have discovered one of the people who did that.

0:42.2

Historian and broadcaster Dan Snow, and after we give him a few minutes to dry off and

0:46.5

warm up, we'll ask him about how they did it.

0:49.1

But first, we want to hear about your epic discoveries.

0:52.3

Give us a call at 1-888-1-888-9248-924.

1:04.8

Right outside our nation's capital, I think I should say far enough outside our nation's

1:08.4

capital.

1:09.4

What do you do there?

1:10.4

Are you part of our nation's permanent government, as many people in Fairfax are?

1:13.8

I'm actually a freshman at George Mason University, studying hospitality management.

1:18.6

However, when I'm not studying, I work at an indoor ice skating rick.

1:22.8

All right, you know what I'm going to ask?

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