Wait Wait goes wild on spring break
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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4.6 • 37.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From NPR and WVEC Chicago, this is Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm the seven-time winner of the Fort Lauderdale Wet Blazer Contest, Bill Tartis. |
| 0:22.6 | And here is your host at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 0:28.6 | Peters. There you go. |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you, Bill. |
| 0:31.6 | Thanks, everybody. |
| 0:33.6 | It is spring break. |
| 0:35.6 | And just like we did in college, everyone on our show is taking |
| 0:39.5 | the opportunity to stay home and catch up on our homework. |
| 0:43.0 | Speak for yourself, dweeb. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm at a karaoke bar in Cabo, absolutely lit on tequila, singing charone at the top of my lungs. |
| 0:58.7 | Okay, fine. |
| 1:00.2 | While Bill is having fun, the rest of us are reviewing our notes from the past year or so. |
| 1:05.4 | Delroy Lindo may not have won an Oscar for his role in the movie Sinners, |
| 1:09.2 | but I am sure he was just as happy |
| 1:11.2 | to join us back in January to talk about his amazing career. |
| 1:14.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.9 | I'm such a big fan of yours. I feel like I've seen you in movies and TV for a very long |
| 1:24.3 | time, but I don't really associate you with one role, and I was wondering, |
| 1:29.5 | do other people, do people recognize you mostly for one thing or another? |
| 1:34.7 | One thing or another, meaning different audience members have different references for me, |
| 1:41.6 | based on what they've seen me do. There is not one part in particular. |
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