George Saunders

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Celebrated short story author George Saunders joins us to answer three questions about court stories. With panelists Paula Poundstone, Peter Grosz and Emmy Blotnick.

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0:00.0	From NPR, at WDB Easy Chicago, this is Weight Weight Go Tell Me.
0:09.1	The NPR News Quiz.
0:11.2	I'll be a butterfly someday.
0:13.0	I'm a very hungry, cat or billar.
0:15.9	No.
0:16.9	Bill Curtis.
0:17.9	Ad here's your host at the Scooter Baker Theatre in downtown Chicago.
0:25.0	It's Peter Sago.
0:26.0	Thank you, Bill.
0:27.0	Thanks, everybody.
0:28.0	Thank you so much.
0:30.0	It's good to see you.
0:32.0	Later on, we're going to be talking to a claimed author and MacArthur genius, George
0:36.4	Saunders.
0:37.4	But first, this month marks our 25th anniversary on the air.
0:42.9	That is right.
0:43.9	We first started broadcasting Weight Weight in January 1998.
0:47.6	And I can't tell you how proud we are of bringing the world about 16 years of quality
0:54.9	comedy.
0:55.9	But we want to hear how old you are today.
1:00.9	So give us a call and help us start our second quarter of the century.
1:04.3	The number is 1-triple-eight.
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