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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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Comedy, Other Games, Leisure

4.6 • 37.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week, we anticipate good things from 2026 by remembering the moments that made 2025 so fun

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0:00.0	From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz.
0:10.0	That big ball in Times Square doesn't drop until it hears me count down from 10.
0:17.0	I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theatre in the Fine Arts
0:22.2	Building in Chicago, Illinois.
0:25.0	Peter Segal.
0:26.2	Thank you, Bill.
0:27.2	Thank you everybody.
0:32.2	Thank you everybody.
0:34.7	The new year has begun but since we're so nervous about what's going to happen,
0:39.3	we've decided to just pretend that it hasn't.
0:42.3	2025 isn't over until I say it's over.
0:46.3	So, we're going to spend another show for rightly avoiding the future.
0:50.3	And we'll start with something it killed me to miss when it happened.
0:55.0	Pedro Pascal is one of my favorite actors, so I was extremely jealous of guest host Tom
1:00.0	Papa getting to interview him in August.
1:03.0	It was better this way, Peter.
1:05.0	You would have fainted dead away the second you saw his face.
1:09.0	Thank you. Thank you saw his face. Thank you.
1:12.2	Thank you for having me.
1:14.8	It's so great to see.
1:15.9	It's really nice to meet you.
1:17.2	I feel like, we all feel like we know you because you're literally in every movie.
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