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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

WWDTM: Gabrielle Dennis

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show, The Big Door Prize's Gabrielle Dennis joins panelists Paula Poundstone, Alonzo Bodden, and Adam Felber to talk about living to your full potential and the job at Six Flags that everyone else is jealous of.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR, no to be easy Chicago. This is Weight Weight. Don't tell me. The NPR News Quiz.

0:11.4

Are you there, God? It's me, Bill Curtis. And here is your host at the Studebaker

0:18.8

Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. Fill again for Peter Segal.

0:24.6

It's Ozo Slade. Appreciate that, Bill. Thank you so much. I'm Ozo Slade, filling in for Peter

0:34.5

Segal. I know what you're thinking. You're all going to let Ozo host? Yeah, buddy. I

0:40.5

started to be the bear of good news, but they messed up and they gave me the keys to the

0:44.2

show this week. Suck us. Later on, we're going to hang out with Gabriel Dennis, one of the

0:50.6

stars of the new show, The Big Door Prize. But first, it's your turn to win our small prize.

0:56.2

The number to call is one triple eight. Wait, wait, wait. That's one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four.

1:02.3

Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hello. You're on weight, wait, don't tell me.

1:07.5

How dare my name is Maddie Brown. And I am calling from Cambridge, Massachusetts, right

1:14.6

up side the American Repetorian. Yeah. Maddie, I feel like you forgot where you're from.

1:21.0

I'm from Minneapolis. Very proud, but I happen to be here, those are different questions.

1:29.8

I see. I see. Now, you know, when we have guest callers on the show, we like to get to know you

1:35.8

a little better by asking you some serious questions. Like, does a straw have two holes or one?

1:44.7

Maddie, I'm not joking. Oh, real question. A real question. I see.

1:53.0

That would you define what a hole means to you? Oh, see, see. Yeah, that's Cambridge. See,

1:58.3

you've been in Cambridge way too long, Maddie. All right. Now, Maddie, I have a few cool, smart,

2:07.1

and funny friends here. You can figure out which ones which. First up, you can see her on

2:12.2

May 19th and Reading, Pennsylvania at the Miller Center for the Arts. It's Paula Poundstone.

2:21.7

Next up, he's the showrunner of the new YouTube show, Uneffing the Planet. It's Adam

2:27.0

Philber. Hi, Maddie. Hi there. And the comedian, you can see May 18th of the 20th at Tacoma,

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