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🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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It's the new year, and we're bringing you new interviews with Rachel Maddow and Bob Woodruff, plus a never-before-heard Bluff the Listener game!

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0:00.0	From NPR and W.B.E.C. Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't tell me the NPR News
0:10.5	quiz. I'm the Ankerman wants to kiss when the ball drops.
0:17.0	Bill Curtis.
0:21.0	And here's your host at the Studebaker Theater and the Fine Arts Building in downtown Chicago
0:30.2	Philian.
0:31.2	For Peter Sakeel, it's an again far size.
0:34.4	Thank you, Bill.
0:36.6	We spent all of 2023 celebrating our 25th anniversary,
0:40.4	but it's the new year, so we're trying something new this year we're going to
0:44.0	celebrate our 26th anniversary gotcha suckers first up a never before heard
0:51.3	interview with award-winning journalist Bob Woodruff who joined
0:54.6	us in Ann Arbor in 2023.
0:57.0	Peter introduced Bob by telling the story of his injury in Iraq in 2006.
1:02.4	A good war correspondent wants to get close to the action, but a great war correspondent gets too close to the action.
1:10.0	That's what happened to ABC War correspondent Bob Woodruff in Iraq in 2006 and after recovering from his injuries he continues to report from around the world and run his Woodruff Foundation to provide support to returning veterans. He joins us now on stage near where he grew up here in Michigan.
1:26.0	Bob Woodruff, welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Talk.
1:27.8	Thank you.
1:28.8	I just want to wait, wait, wait, don't embarrass me, I guess.
1:35.0	Sorry, that's not the name of the show.
1:38.0	Sorry, so let's start at the beginning,
1:40.0	a thing that everybody knows, you famously had a very close call and a very narrow escape from
1:45.2	disaster you were almost a lawyer.
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