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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
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0:12.1 | Learn more at RWJF.org. |
0:19.4 | From NPR, WBEC Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. |
0:26.2 | I'm the man who causes a heat wave just by introducing himself. |
0:36.9 | I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts |
0:41.6 | Building in Chicago, Illinois, Peter Seigal. |
0:44.8 | Thank you, Bill. |
0:46.7 | And thanks, everybody. |
0:48.8 | It is time for our summer break, which we started doing at this time because no news ever happens in August. |
0:56.2 | So, you know, we might as well take some time off. |
0:58.1 | Now, that is not true anymore, but we still keep up the tradition. |
1:02.4 | The only difference is now we don't tell anybody where we're going. |
1:06.8 | That way the news can't find us. |
1:09.7 | Well, we're hiding behind window shades and screening our calls. |
1:12.6 | We will be bringing you some extended versions of our favorite moments from this past year. |
1:17.6 | Starting with this conversation with comedian Louis Black, who joined us on stage in Durham, North Carolina. |
1:24.6 | Peter asked him if his angry rants were always part of his act. |
1:29.7 | I wasn't angry on stage. I realized that I was suppressing the anger. I was really irritated |
1:37.4 | about a lot of stuff. But instead of like yelling, when I would yell, I would turn my back |
1:43.0 | to the audience and yell at the wall |
1:45.3 | because it seemed freaky to yell at people. And I went to a variety of things of trying |
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