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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Darryl "Cornbread" McCray

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Darryl "Cornbread" McCray, called the creator of modern graffiti, plays a game about another kind of tagging. He is joined by panelists Alonzo Bodden, Faith Salie, and Josh Gondelman.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR, the W.B.E.C. Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Navy, NPR News Quiz.

0:11.4

Get ready for some East Coast Swing, because Motown Billies back again.

0:17.6

I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at TD Pavilion at the Man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

0:29.6

A man I call My Tasty Kakes.

0:32.8

It's Peter Segal.

0:34.1

Thank you Bill.

0:36.0

Thank you everybody.

0:36.9

Thank you, Philip.

0:39.2

It is good to be back here at the beautiful man center right in the city of brotherly love,

0:44.2

one of the few forms of love that will not be soon declared illegal by the Supreme Court.

0:50.6

Later on, we're going to be talking to Philadelphia's own Darryl McCray, also known as Cornbread,

0:55.2

the man who made credit with inventing modern graffiti.

0:58.4

He did that here, but first we want you to make your mark, so give us a call.

1:03.0

The number is 1-888-924-8924.

1:06.6

Let's welcome my first listener contestant.

1:09.0

Hi, you're on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

1:11.4

This is Pat Marwan from Omanabraka.

1:14.0

From Omaha.

1:15.5

When I was growing up, I used to watch Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

1:21.6

And being a small, impressionable boy, I always assumed that the amazing scenes of jungle

1:27.3

life happened in Omaha.

1:31.9

So do you enjoy the wildlife of Omaha?

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