We tackle the SOTU and Olympian Lilly King talks trash
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message come from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, |
| 0:05.4 | investing in creative thinkers and problem solvers who help people, communities, and the planet flourish. |
| 0:11.1 | More information is available at Hewlett.org. |
| 0:18.4 | From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR News Quiz. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm the man with a voice so smooth you could go curling on that. |
| 0:32.6 | Bill Curtis, and here's your host at the Indiana University Auditorium in Bloomington, Indiana. Peter Sagan. |
| 0:40.9 | Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. It is great to be here at Indiana University. |
| 0:51.4 | I.U., which, thanks to their incredible football team, just, they just |
| 0:59.5 | learned a little known secret. |
| 1:02.0 | When you win the National College Football Championship, the coach gets a new record-setting |
| 1:09.1 | high salary, and the rest of you get us. |
| 1:18.2 | So later on, speaking of athletics, we're going to be talking to a proud who's your |
| 1:22.7 | alum and multiple Olympic medalist swimmer Lily King. |
| 1:26.1 | But first, it's your turn to compete. Give us a call |
| 1:28.9 | of 1-3-8-8-8-8-8-2-4. Let's welcome our first listener-contestant. Hi, you're on Wait-Wa-Wat |
| 1:35.1 | Don't tell me. Hi, I'm Bradley Patrick. I'm from Chicago, Illinois. Hey, how are things back in |
| 1:40.9 | Chicago? Still very cold. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm kind of glad to hear that because we're not there. |
| 1:50.0 | What do you do in our hometown? |
| 1:52.0 | So for my day job, I'm an enterprise consultant, but for my second gig, I run a local cat rescue here. Really? |
| 2:02.3 | Yes. |
| 2:04.7 | When you say here, do you mean your house? |
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