Tom Hanks At Home

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tom Hanks, sometime public radio host, joins us along with panelists Adam Felber, Negin Farsad, and Peter Grosz.

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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.
0:11.8	You're not feeling ill, you're feeling bill, bill Curtis.
0:16.7	And here is your host, here to put the play in play.
0:21.2	It's Peter's signal.
0:22.2	Thank you, Bill.
0:23.2	Thanks to all you wonderful, grateful people who are not in fact in the
0:29.9	this closet applauding for me.
0:31.9	That's of course, canned applause played by our trustee producer, Mike.
0:35.4	Now this particular applause was our audience back in January of 2017,
0:41.9	applauding for special guest host Tom Hanks.
0:46.4	There's really nothing like the sound of people loudly enjoying one's absence.
0:50.5	Anyway, we have invited Mr. Hanks back.
0:53.8	He'll be joining us later to play not my job.
0:56.0	But this time, Tom, I'm not going anywhere.
1:00.3	Of course.
1:01.3	No, no, no, no.
1:03.3	That wasn't a sound effect, Peter.
1:05.5	That was my voice.
1:06.5	I apologize.
1:07.5	Nobody is going anywhere.
1:09.0	So we assume you are free to give us a call and play our games.
1:12.6	The number is one triple-late, wait, wait, or one, 888-924-8924.
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