#wwdtm

[commanderaqwahstrainingoutpost]

I feel like Sam Reich has been in an eternal audition for the host of NPR's wait wait don't tell me, and honestly I hope he gets the role.

[silverbridge-harbor]

Npr quiz game "wait wait don't tell me" but it's evil npr so instead it's "wait wait don't kill me" and the contestant is sitting in the electric chair in case of wrong answers

[goatmilksoda]

I need new podcasts!

Hey friends! I work a job that allows me to have headphones in pretty much all day and I've noticed that what I choose to listen to can greatly affect my day.

When I'm at work, I need something funny and engaging and around an hour long (maybe more, but no less than 40 minutes please!). I'm currently up to date with TAZ, MBMBAM, WWDTM, and WTNV (which I love but is absolutely not practical for my job since its only 20 minutes so I need to stop and switch episodes pretty often.)

So I'm looking for something in that vein. I love Ologies, the IASIP podcast, Sawbones, Planet Money, Hidden Brain, Radiolab, and Parks and Recollection, too, but I use those as evening podcasts for falling asleep. I'm looking for something with more energy that may be more game oriented to keep me entertained while I aimlessly wander and put away books.

(Also no true crime please!)

Thanks for any help you can provide!

[alias-fern-mason]

It is extremely uncanny to hear Bill Curtis recite an entire limerick

[calicojack1718]

Anthony Fauci

@wwdtm

I listened to your Saturday 3 August show with Anthony Fauci. He was funny. Genuinely funny. Great timing and wit. He seems the sweetest most sincere human being ever. So, I have a question, why did you let him lose?

I've seen y'all give three hints to your guests! How do you decide who you're going to bend over backwards to get a guest to the right answer and who you don't? I was appalled.

[athenasdragon]

I’ve started responding out loud to intrusive thoughts by saying “well if any of that happens we’ll ask you about it right here on wait wait don’t tell me” and honestly it snaps me out of it

[copperbadge]

Hey Sam, thanks so much for the tip about how much easier it is to get WWDTM tickets now! I went once years ago after my sister managed to snag tickets right as the queue opened and it was A BIG DEAL. Fast forward a few years, and I had such a good time at a show I bought tickets for spontaneously. Sometimes change doesn’t suck!

Aw yeah that's awesome! It's still a little difficult to get tickets to some shows, but at least you don't have to show up early and sit on the floor and then stand in line for like two hours. What a fucking feat of endurance. And I really like the new venue, it's still close to me (walkable!) and it's a more comfortable setup, I feel.

Love that they kept that dumb little light up disco ball thing, though. It wouldn't be WWDTM without it.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (31 Dec 2023-6 Jan 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 The PostScript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2) (Elly Griffiths, author; Nina Wadia, narrator) - entertaining cozy mystery (even tho Harbinder is an actualfax police officer). Though it's nominally Harbinder's series, she's just one of the characters, not the main character per se. Anyway, I enjoyed!

💖💖 +366K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved (YULETIDE, BABEY!) 💖💖

Put to Their Books (ribbons) - Sotherans twitter acct; KJ Charles' England & WDA series: archie/daniel, fen/pat, 2K - v clever modern social media AU feat Southerns, cameo by AZ Fell

A Particular Force (TwoWeevils) - The Will Darling Adventures (KJ Charles): will/kim, 5K - Yuletide 2023

It was of this that he had been dreaming (ExceptMaybeYou) - We Could Be So Good (Cat Sebastian): andy/nick, 4K - Yuletide 2023

Permanent Residence (Nabielka) - The Cabots (Cat Sebastian): peter/caleb, 1.7K - Yuletide 2023, 'on staying in California'

Finest of the Flavors (whetherwoman) - Lilywhite Boys Series (KJ Charles): jerry/alec, 5K - Yuletide 2023

I love you--all I can (goseaward) - England Series (KJ Charles): bill/jimmy, 5K - Yuletide 2023, Bill & Jimmy across 30 years

The Alternatives of Summer (iberiandoctor (jehane)) - Call Me By Your Name: oliver/elio, 8K - Yuletide 2023, 8 yrs later Elio & Oliver meet at Fire Island

The Matrimonial State (beautifulduckweed) - The Cabots (Cat Sebastian): tommy/everett, 4K - Yuletide 2023, "Being a short account of three different weddings in Massachusetts attended by Thomas Cabot and Everett Sloane."

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Zarna Garg: One in a Billion

Midsomer Murders - s24, e3-4

Dirty Laundry - s3, e9

D20: Escape From The Bloodkeep - e1-5

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Hit Parade - The Bridge: Moguls Can’t Be Choosers

Desert Island Discs - Marina Abramović, performance artist

Overinvested - Ep. 291: Doctor Who 2023 specials

Welcome to Night Vale - The Haunting of Night Vale

Vibe Check - My Spiritual Finger Is Wagging

Today, Explained - Israel’s next move

Films To Be Buried With - Chelsea Peretti

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Books We Love: No Biz Like Showbiz

What Next: TBD - Why the New York Times Sued OpenAI

Up First - Trump's Pardon Promise, The Islamic State's Iran Attack, Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracies

Endless Thread - This episode is a sign from the universe

Dear Prudence - I Don’t Want to Cancel My Retirement Plans to Babysit. Help!

Cautionary Tales - DANGER: Rocks Ahead!

Our Opinions Are Correct - New mini episode! All about our cats

You're Dead to Me - Catherine the Great

What Next: TBD - Tesla's Cybertruck Problem

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - WWDTM: Now With Real Journalists!

Up First - Jan. 6 Insurrection Revisited, Blinken to Israel, COVID Resurgence.

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - Disappearing Acts: When Popular Brands Are Discontinued

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Essential REO Speedwagon {2004}

I Wanna Know What Love Is

Soft Rock Ballads

Relaxing '80s Rock

Merengue Mix

AM In The A.M.: '70s Pop Morning

"Beach Baby" [First Class] radio

'70s Mellow Gold

'80s Slow Dance

[specialtrampdanascully]

My corny ass gets teary eyed whenever Peter Sagal says THIS is npr at the end of WWDTM and I’m not really sure why?????????

[ihearthes]

When you’ve made it as a question on NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”, you know it’s news! 🤣

[mxalexwhat]

Every TMA fan who also listens to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me must have had a fucking field day when they brought the Buffalo Worm Guy on as their special guest this week.

[everydaystyles]

Harry Styles gets a mention on the Listener Limerick Challenge from Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, 14March2020

[viveleweenie]

This is the second time today I've listened to a podcast that talked about the KFC bucket Crocs

[goatmilksoda]

Peter Segal: Now it’s time for our listener lymric challenge! Bill, you may begin

Bill Curtis, elegantly:

“Now that September is over,

The rest of us are hardly sober,

The memes are undead, 

As the Skeletons said,

‘Now it’s time for ___’”

The guest: Spooktober?

Peter, now a skeleton: *Rattles loudly and excitedly* YES! That is correct!

[aroguexenolith]

That is fantastically on-brand

This

*AIRHORN NOISE*

is NPR

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (23-29 Jul 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Rift (seapigeon) - 53K, modern college no powers AU - there's witchcraft and ghosts and curses and art student steve and science nerd bucky and it was all very good!

😍 Six Kids and a Winnebago series (Oddree13) - 91K, omegaverse Steddie - this series is a thoroughly delightful domestic omegaverse(lite) set post s4 - excellent characterizations, great sense of time/place & really fantastic music references

🥰 Longing and Belonging (enjambament) - 44K, geraskier - governess!Jaskier, lots of great family stuff with Ciri & Yen [reread, a definite fave]

😍 if I'm gonna get back to you someday (napricot) - 46K, post Endgame fixit with "a clusterfuck of Steves" from different multiverses - so many good emotions!

😊 Roommate Wanted (Lihhelsing, tinkerbclla) - 66K, modern Steddie roommates-to-lovers, part epistolary with a dash of identity porn

💖💖 +110K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

the premature awakening of Bucky Barnes [at the hands of stupid, sexy, Post-run Steve] (MaddieWritesStucky (Madeleine_Ward)) - MCU: stucky, 3K - modern no powers stucky, several months on in the relationship between stripper!Bucky & architecht Steve [reread]

Galatea (saltandbyrne) - Inception: Arthur/Eames, 16K - a very good and delightfully melancholic modern myth telling

Shelter Case (Coragyps) - Suits: Mike/Harvey, 7K - futuristic dark dystopian omegaverse [reread]

Let Me Keep You (LeeHan) - MCU: stucky, 4K - Steve's oral fixation PWP  [reread]

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

D20: Adventuring Party - s1, e15-18

D20: A Crown of Candy - s5, e15-17

Good Omens - s2, e1-6

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

What Next: TBD Plus - Why Tech Lays Women Off First

⭐ Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Julia Gets Wise with Jane Fonda

Fire Island: The Tea - Thomás Matos

50 Years of Hip-Hop - 1991: "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" by Geto Boys

50 Years of Hip-Hop - 1993: "Hip Hop Hooray" by Naughty by Nature

Hot and Bothered - Live from Pemberley: The 2005 Movie (with Helen Zaltzman and Jenny Owen Youngs)

Re: Dracula - July 24: There Will be Some Trouble

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News - Episode 6: “Hello America, this is Addis Ababa.”

50 MPH - 7 MPH / A Crash Course in Jan De Bont (with Bilge Ebiri)

⭐ Endless Thread - Best of Summer: The Loudest Sound

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Mapping the Gay Guides

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Spaces for Spies

Switched on Pop - Barbie and the plasticity of pop

Shedunnit - Cricket and Crime

Re: Dracula - July 26: Just Starting for Home

Ologies with Alie Ward - Sciuridology (SQUIRRELS) with Karen Munroe

Stuff The British Stole - The Fever Tree Hunt

The Waves Plus - How a Drag Queen Recreated the American Dream

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Knight’s Spider Web Farm

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Amazon Night Hikes

Our Opinions Are Correct - Encore Episode: We're in the wrong timeline, with Connie Willis and R.F. Kuang

99% Invisible #546 - The Country of the Blind

50 Years of Hip-Hop - 1981: "Rapture" by Blondie

⭐ Decoder Ring Plus - A Brief History of Making Out

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Zelda: A Beep to the Past

Dear Prudence Plus - My Boyfriend Hid His Hobby From Me—Civil War Reenactments. Help!

⭐ Into It - Country Music’s Race Problem

What Next: TBD Plus - Washington vs. A.I.

Rivals: Music's Greatest Feuds - Robbie Robertson vs. Levon Helm: Broken Band

Re: Dracula - July 28: Four Days in Hell

Re: Dracula - July 29: Another Tragedy

Hit Parade Plus - The Bridge: Don’t Believe Me, Just Watch

⭐ Strong Songs - "Killing Me Softly With His Song," as sung by Lauryn Hill, Roberta Flack, & Lori Lieberman

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - WWDTM: Randall Park

Fire Island: The Tea - Bambi Sue: Dredging Up the Past

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting The Who

People Just Wanna Have Fun [Kool & The Gang] {2023}

The Beach Boys Radio • Popular

"One Thing Leads To Another" [The Fixx] Radio

Dream Theater

Presenting Bruno Mars