WWDTM: Lucy Dacus

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, special guest Lucy Dacus joins panelists Tom Bodett, Adam Burke, and Helen Hong

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0:00.0	This week on Consider This, a story that touches corporate media politics in the White House with billions of dollars at stake.
0:07.5	Listen, in normal times, regulators don't take their cues from the president.
0:11.7	These aren't normal times.
0:13.0	What you need to know about the fight for control of Warner Brothers.
0:16.3	On Consider This, you can listen every afternoon on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.9	Hey, it's Peter Sagle. Before we start today's show, I want to take a second of your time to talk about public media. You know, basically this. Public media was founded to inform, to expand your perspective, to enrich your understanding.
0:38.5	And over its decades-long history, eventually it became also a format for, well, fart jokes.
0:44.2	But we still believe in the mission of public media at NPR.
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1:52.2	From NPR and WBEs in Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Alzo Sl Slade the guy they bring in when it's too windy for Bill Curtis to land his jetpack
2:05.8	and here's your host at the Studebaker Theater and the fine arts building in Chicago Illinois Peter Sago
2:12.4	thank you Alzo thank you so much. Thank you, everybody.
2:19.2	Yeah, later on, we do have a great show.
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