WWDTM: Kevin O'Leary
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from How to Be a Better Human, a podcast from Ted for the self-help skeptic. |
| 0:06.0 | Hear how you can laugh more in your everyday life, explained with science, insights, and hilarious |
| 0:10.9 | stories. Listen to How to Be a Better Human, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:20.2 | From NPR and WVEZ Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR News Quiz. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Bill Curtis, and my voice is the only set of pipes in America that's not freezing this weekend. |
| 0:39.0 | And here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 0:45.2 | Peter Siegel. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you, Bill. |
| 0:47.9 | Thanks, everybody. |
| 0:50.3 | We have a great show for you today. |
| 0:52.8 | And also a useful one. |
| 0:54.7 | Later on, we're going to be talking to Kevin O'Leary, investor and star of Marty Supreme and Shark Tank. |
| 1:02.0 | And he will tell us if it's true, the best investment advice to set yourself up for wealth and luxury is to give all of your money to your local NPR station. |
| 1:30.8 | Right? I think it works because of compound interest. I'm not sure. But first, if you'd like to judge what we're pitching, give us a call. The number is 1-3-8-8-Wa-W-W-T-W-T-W-T. That's 1-88-8-8-9-24. Now it's time to welcome our first listener, contestant. How you're on? Wait, wait, wait, don't tell me. Peter, this is Jared from Defiance, Ohio. |
| 1:45.2 | Defiance, Ohio. Defiance, Ohio, is a place I've heard of, because of its unusual name. Are you, in fact, a group of defiant people? I suppose. I mean, the town was named after a fort from the American Indian Wars. |
| 1:47.7 | So, yeah, there's probably something there, I guess. |
| 1:48.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.3 | I think the correct answer to Are You Defiant in Defiance, Ohio is no. |
| 1:57.9 | Well, welcome to our show, Jared. |
| 2:00.1 | Let me introduce you to our panel this week. |
| 2:00.8 | First up, a comedian, you can see at the wormhole in Savannah, Georgia, March 28th. It's Adam Burke. Hi, Jared. Hi, Adam. |
| 2:10.7 | Next, a writer for the TV show Clean Slate, now streaming on Prime, it's Shantira Jackson. |
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