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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Laird Hamilton

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Laird Hamilton, big wave surfer, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Luke Burbank, and Bobcat Goldthwait.

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.

0:10.0

Hey, Thanos, forget the Infinity Stones. Listen to my Infinity Ton.

0:17.0

I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago

0:25.3

Peter Segal. Thank you, Bill. Thank you everybody so much. Thank you for being with us.

0:31.3

We have a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to layered Hamilton,

0:36.3

legendary surfer fitness model, lifestyle, and exercise guru. Basically, his job is to be cooler than you.

0:44.3

But first, we wanted to commemorate the third anniversary of one of the greatest events in NPR history.

0:52.3

On April 28th, 2016, on Take Your Child to Workday, a child reached out on a adorable little finger, pushed a button,

1:01.3

and took NPR off the air during morning edition. It sounded a little bit like this.

1:08.3

Jeffrey Katzenberg will stay behind her dream works to work on s***.

1:15.3

That silence lasted for 73 seconds, which is a period of time that we in the radio business call forever.

1:25.3

But due to the popular response to this event, NPR has created a new corporate holiday, which we celebrated this past week.

1:32.3

Leave your damn child at home, then. Anyway, we really want to hear your voice, so give us a call.

1:39.3

The number is 1,888, wait, wait, that's 1,888, 924, 892, 4.

1:43.3

Now, let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you are on, wait, wait, don't tell me.

1:47.3

Hi, how are you?

1:49.3

I'm good, who's this?

1:50.3

This is Miyuki from Irvington, New York.

1:53.3

Irvington, New York. So, what do you do there in Irvington?

1:55.3

I'm a musician.

1:56.3

Are you really?

1:57.3

Hi.

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