Tracy Letts

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Tracy Letts, actor and playwright, joins us along with panelists Peter Grosz, Amy Dickenson, and Hari Kondabolu.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz.
0:10.6	Hey Iowa, I'm the only candidate that's Viabill.
0:15.0	I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago
0:25.8	Peters.
0:26.8	Thank you Bill.
0:27.8	Thank you everybody.
0:30.8	It's so good to see you here.
0:33.4	We have such a great show for you today.
0:35.2	Later on, we're going to be talking to the award-winning actor and playwright behind
0:38.9	August Osage County and Killer Joe, many other plays.
0:42.2	Tracy Lettsy.
0:43.2	Yes, he's here.
0:45.9	He writes, really in plays filled with madness, murder, dysfunction, and paranoia, which weren't
0:51.4	realistic when he wrote them, but circumstances have changed.
0:56.7	I don't want to hear your deep family secrets.
0:58.4	We just want you to play our games.
0:59.8	Give us a call.
1:00.8	The number is 1-triple-late, wait, wait.
1:02.4	That's 1-888-924, 8-924.
1:05.4	Let's welcome our first listener contestant.
1:07.3	Hi, you're on, wait, wait, don't tell me.
1:08.6	Hey Peter and gang, this is Chad Johansson from the epicenter of the New Hampshire primary,
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