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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

WWDTM: James Gunn

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, special guest James Gunn joins panelists Adam Burke, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Paula Poundstone

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0:00.0

This week, on Consider This, tariffs are starting to fuel inflation.

0:05.0

We track how higher costs are winding their way through the supply chain and where you could see them.

0:11.3

And air traffic controllers say a Trump administration pushed to modernize their equipment won't fix deeper problems.

0:18.6

Here why.

0:19.6

On Consider this, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Don't fix deeper problems. Hear why. Unconsider this.

0:23.6

Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.6

From NPR, I'm WB HeZ Chicago.

0:35.5

This is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz for now.

0:42.4

I hope you've got treads on those boots because my voice is so smooth

0:45.3

you might slip.

0:48.4

I'm Bill Curtis and here is your host

0:50.5

at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building

0:53.5

in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Sagle.

0:56.3

Thank you, Bill.

0:59.4

Thank you, everybody.

1:02.7

We have such a good show lined up for you today.

1:05.2

Later on, writer and director James Gunn will be joining us to talk about his new movie.

1:10.5

You might have heard of it,

1:11.2

Superman. But first, you may have heard that this week Congress voted to take back all of the

1:19.8

funding for public broadcasting. And that is bad. That is bad. I'm going to admit it. It's not good.

1:26.3

But what I found personally upsetting was that in all of the debates, all the condemnations of NPR and why it had to be defunded, this show was never mentioned once.

1:43.6

We have been unworthy of public support for more than a quarter century.

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