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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Piper Kerman

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Piper Kerman, author, joins us along with panelists Mo Rocca, Maeve Higgins, and Alonzo Bodden.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR, nobody be easy Chicago, this is Weight, Weight, Don't Tell Me.

0:09.0

The NPR News Quiz.

0:11.0

Forget about LeBron, you've got LeBel.

0:15.0

And Bill Curtis and here is your host at the Blossom Music Center in Cairo,

0:27.0

the National Park, Peter Segal.

0:30.0

Thank you, Bill.

0:32.0

Thank you, everybody.

0:34.0

Thank you so much for being here.

0:36.0

It is wonderful to be here at Blossom, a music venue founded back in 1968 by the beloved Mayan Biolic sitcom, for which it is named.

0:46.0

Later on, we're going to be talking to Piper Kerman, the author of Orange is the New Black, who's now teaching writing in prisons here in Ohio.

0:55.0

But first, the New York Times published an amazing expose this week, close to our hearts, with a shocking conclusion, we have reached, quote, peak podcast.

1:07.0

That's right, every single person in America now has a podcast.

1:13.0

So from here on, podcasts will slowly decline until there are none left, and people will stop committing unsolved murders out of a lack of interest.

1:24.0

If you don't want to bother starting a podcast, but still want to hear your voice on one, give us a call.

1:31.0

The number is 1-triple-8, wait, wait. That's 1-888-924-8924.

1:35.0

Now let's welcome our first listener contested, hi, you're on, wait, wait, don't tell me.

1:39.0

Hey, this is David.

1:40.0

Hey, David, where are you calling from?

1:42.0

Little Falls, Minnesota.

1:44.0

Little Falls, Minnesota. Now I lived in Minnesota, but I never came across little falls. Where is that?

1:48.0

Max dad in the hearts of Minnesota, right in the middle.

1:51.0

And what do you do there in the middle of Minnesota?

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