WWDTM: Patti LuPone

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.6 • 35.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Patti LuPone joins panelists Emmy Blotnick, Adam Felber, and Joyelle Nicole Johnson to talk birds, Broadway, and the proper way to swipe a cell phone.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WPZ Chicago, this is Weight, Weight. Don't tell me the NPR news quiz. I'm your
0:11.0	new summer blockbuster, Mission Impossible.
0:16.0	Don't hurt us. And here's your host, the Fine Arts Building in Chicago with an IPeter,
0:24.0	Segal. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody. You're too kind, but I don't blame you for being
0:31.0	excited. We have a great show for you today, later on. We're going to be talking to the Broadway
0:35.0	Legend Patty Lupone. Now, yes. You may remember a few years ago, she actually stopped performing
0:46.0	a play and grabbed the cell phone from an audience member who is using it during the performance.
0:53.0	So I recommend everybody here turn theirs off and everybody listening at home better do it too.
1:02.0	Patty will know. But still, before you do that, use the phone to call us. The number is 1-888-8-924-8924. It's time to welcome
1:13.0	our first listener contestant. How are you around? Wait, wait, don't tell me.
1:16.0	Hello, Peter. This is Mike from Amazing Chicago. Amazing Chicago. Great to hear from you. What do you do in our
1:26.0	fabulous city? When I'm not opening for Patty Lupone. I'm a full-time guide, so I have my own
1:35.0	solo company called Tours with Mike where I try to make architecture, design, and history fun and interesting
1:41.0	through a bunch of really special tours. Well, that's really exciting. I need to apologize because I'm the kind of person who is your
1:46.0	nightmare who goes into her and then raises my hand to ask a question what I really want to do is try to prove I know more
1:53.0	than you do. I'm, hey, I love the interactivity. It keeps it fun, it keeps it interesting, it keeps me doing the job.
2:02.0	Right. Well, Mike, let me introduce you to our panel this week. First up, it's writer and comedian, Emmy Blotnik.
2:08.0	Next, he's the director of the new YouTube climate-oriented comedy show Unbleeping the Planet. You can find it at uftp.world. It's Adam Felber.
2:22.0	Hey there, hi Mike. Hello. And finally, making her debut on our panel, the comedian who'll be performing at the Just for
2:32.0	Last Festival in Montreal in July 25th at Cafe Cleopatra. It's Joy-L Nicole Johnson.
2:38.0	Yeah.
2:39.0	Yeah.
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