Make My Day Episode 63: Classic Wood Questions (with guests from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me)

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

Radio Point

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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EPISODE SUMMARY: A recording of our recent livestream show. Paula Poundstone, Tom Bodett, and Peter Sagal compete to cheer Josh up. Karen Chee pops in as well and is delightful in a non-competitive setting. Quick note for listeners who didn't watch the livestream: Paula Poundstone repeatedly pretends to cut her head off with a saw over the course of the episode. Ticket sales from the live show benefitted HatchSpace, a not-for-profit woodworking collective in Vermont that Tom co-founded. Donate to HatchSpace: https://hatchspace.org/Donate Listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ Check out Peter's books: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/peter-sagal.html Listen to Paula's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nobody-listens-to-paula-poundstone/id1410611499 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. This is Josh Gondelman. Yep, that's right. It's me. And it's Make My Day, a comedy game show. Thank you all for being here live and in person.
0:14.9	If you've never heard the show before, if you've never listened to the podcast, the premise is the world is a difficult place.
0:21.3	And so we try to make it a little nicer for about 30 minutes every week.
0:25.2	Usually, I play a game designed to cheer me up with one guest or a team of guests who's guaranteed to win because they're the only contestant.
0:32.3	But this week, on this episode, we have three guests competing against each other,
0:37.1	which is huge, nearly
0:38.9	unprecedented in the history of Make My Day.
0:41.4	And all three of the guests are beloved panelists from NPR's News Quiz.
0:47.3	Wait, wait, wait, don't tell me.
0:48.6	The winner will receive a $100 donation to the cause of their choice or the charity of their
0:53.7	choice.
0:54.0	And then each contestant
0:55.9	and I will give a pep talk to a person or a group that we think needs it this week. Because it's not
1:01.4	all about me. It's just mostly about me. This is one of the first Friday nights in a year where you
1:06.9	could have gone to a place. And instead, you stayed put and are enjoying this show with us.
1:13.7	The ticket cost benefits, Hatch Space.
1:16.5	And here to say a little bit about Hatch Space
1:19.7	is our first contestant.
1:21.5	He is the co-founder of the Hatch Space Woodworking
1:23.9	Project in Brattleboro, Vermont.
1:25.7	But you and I both know him, or we all, we all know him from his numerous appearances on
1:30.2	Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
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