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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Jen Psaki

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, joins us along with panelists Tom Papa, Jessi Klein, and Yassir Lester.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR and WB Easy Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.

0:11.0

Sorry Buffalo, I guess only certain bills are winners.

0:15.8

I'm Bill Curtis, and here's your host, my short squeeze, Peter Segal.

0:21.4

Thank you Bill, and thanks as always to our fake audience.

0:25.6

Through this week are clapping because my parents spread the word that I could really use a boost.

0:31.0

But first some news, it has only been a week, but White House press secretary Jen Saki

0:37.0

is becoming broiled in her first scandal.

0:40.0

She has agreed to be on this show while we promise to be nicer to her than Peter Ducey.

0:46.0

But now it's your turn to stand at the podium.

0:48.3

The number is one AAA, wait, wait, that's one 888-9248924.

0:52.8

Thanks, welcome, my first listener contestant.

0:54.5

Hi, you're on, wait, wait, don't tell me.

0:56.0

Hi, this is Margarita Pryor, and I'm in Providence through the island.

1:00.2

Beautiful Providence, I love it there.

1:02.1

What do you do there?

1:03.1

Well, I live here, but I worked in Boston for the US Environmental Protection Agency.

1:08.8

Wait a minute, you work for the EPA.

1:11.0

How long have you worked for the EPA?

1:13.5

Wait, I've been a faceless bureaucrat for a really long time.

1:19.0

I hate to tell you how long.

1:20.8

Well, how are all you faceless bureaucrats in the EPA feeling these days?

1:25.7

Speaking for myself, of course, I think that we feel really happy.

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