Hey everybody, it's Peter. So a little while after the lockdown started, I was sitting in my closet at home wrapping up that week's show.

And I got to the part right before I ended by saying this is NPR, you know, with a pause.

And I blurted out something like, hey everybody, congrats for getting through the week. Let's do it again.

And somebody told me that was nice to hear. So I did it again the next week and the next and now it has become a thing.

And here is the thing, it's completely sincere. It's been a tough year for everybody, including everybody you're about to hear on our show this week and doing our show for you in a real way with you has helped all of us immensely.

We really are in this together, which is why we are taking a second here at the end of a tough year and hopefully right before a much better one to ask you to donate to your local station.

Go to donate.npr.org slash wait, thank you and hopefully we'll see you and thank you in person next year.

From NPR WBZ Chicago, this is wait, wait, don't tell me the NPR news quiz. Do you hear what I hear?

I hear me, Bill Curtis. And here's your host who bricked up his chimney just in case Santa was infectious. Peter's say go.

Thank you, Bill. It is the weekend after Christmas and we hope everybody found what they wanted stuffed in their stockings.

I keep looking for a human foot so I can then solve the mystery.

For our part, all we asked Santa for was a chance to relive some of our favorite moments from this year's wait wait shows and he delivered by these sackful. Some of them in fact have never been broadcast before.

First, like a lot of people this year, we had wait, wait, worked from home and sometimes Peter didn't handle the walls closing in all that well.

And here is your host from a Jacuzzi filled with hand sanitizer somewhere in Chicago. Peter's say go.

Thank you, Bill. And here's your host from exactly six feet away from me. From inside the same pair of pajamas he's had on for two weeks.

Coming to you from a hole he dug at his yard, he's calling his new office. Probably wearing pants but no promises.

Making a chase bank auditorium out of his mashed potatoes. And here's your host who enjoys the ants in his kitchen because it reminds him of being outside who keeps a picture of his audience in a locket around his neck.

A man who was just elected mayor of his living room. And here's your host a man who just had to reread the instruction manual for his pants.

And here's your host at the chase bank near his house, cashing a check. And here I got to your host. No, no, no, no. He's the father, not the grandfather. Peter's say go.

Thank you, Bill.

That's a side of truth there. Just a minute, Bill's got mine.

Every week we record farm one material that we have time to broadcast and this year we hired an intern to come in and sweep up the extra segments from the editing room floor.

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