Sarah Brightman

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Sarah Brightman, soprano, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Roxanne Roberts, and Luke Burbank.

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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. Count me. I'm your
0:12.7	provisional billet. I'm Bill Curtis and here's your host at the Chaseback Auditorium in downtown
0:19.6	Chicago. Thank you, Bill. Thank you everybody. Thank you so much. I'm really glad to see you too. We have a very fine
0:30.2	show for you today. Later on we're going to be talking to singer Sarah Brightman, the most famous
0:35.1	soprano in the world who didn't have anybody whacked. A quick note, obviously we're going to be
0:40.3	talking about the midterm elections, but we cannot talk about what happened in Florida because as of
0:45.5	show time they have no idea who won. Can you believe it? We are going to have another recount in Florida. If
0:54.6	we're going to be 2000 again, can I at least have my hair back? We will offer you a decisive verdict,
1:02.3	win or lose when you play our game. So give us a call. The number is one, triple eight, wait,
1:06.9	wait, that's one, 88, 924, 8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you are on
1:12.7	wait, wait, don't tell me. Hello, just Rebecca Reader. Hey, Rebecca, where are you calling from?
1:16.7	Columbus, Ohio. Oh, we love Columbus. We were just there last year. What's up, what's up there?
1:21.5	Oh, I work at the library. Is that why you're being so quiet, Rebecca? Yeah. Well, Rebecca,
1:29.5	welcome to our show. Let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, it's a features writer for
1:33.8	the style section of the Washington Post. It's Roxanne Roberts. Hello, Rebecca.
1:37.4	Next is the host of the public radio variety show Live Wire and the podcast. Too beautiful to live.
1:45.7	It's Luke Burbank. Hey, Rebecca. And it's a comedian doing her regular gig new year's eve at the
1:56.4	Norse Theatre in San Francisco. And her new podcast is Nobody listens to Paula Poundstone. It's Paula Poundstone. So,
2:08.3	Rebecca, welcome to our show. You're going to start us off, of course, with who's bill this time. Bill Curtis is going to
2:12.9	read for you three quotations from this week's news. If you can correctly identify or explain just two of them, you'll win our
2:18.8	prize. Any voice from our show that you might choose on your voicemail? Are you ready to go? All right, here's your first quote.
2:25.3	It's someone saying what big lesson he learned from Tuesday's midterms. I think people like me. Who took that message
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