We’re the luckiest radio show in the world

Thank you so much NYT Styles 💖 for the profile!! And sorry to everyone on the M Train for making you watch me anxiously do a photo shoot in public!

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Today, our beloved sister show 'Everyone & Their Mom' says goodbye.

Celebrate their brilliant silliness one more time and please post pictures of yourself crying while you listen:

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We at waitwait lost our little sister podcast, “Everyone and Their Mom,” in the round of NPR layoffs. KOTUS and hayleyfager are two talented, hard-working producers, and anybody would be lucky to have ‘em. As for emma choi, you ain’t heard the last of her.

On April 27th, Wait Wait is coming back to Nashville!

Come join us for a night of laughs, or, if Bill gets his way, a two-hour spoken-word tribute to Dolly Parton:

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I've never met a quiz I didn't want to ace, so I was excited to test my knowledge on waitwait Don't Tell Me. Thank to Josh Gondelman and the amazing panelists for having me.

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Thrilled (and, honestly a little shocked) that the incredible Malala Yousafzai is our guest this week!

She and guest host Josh Gondelman will talk Nobels, Oscars, and Beyoncé vs. Taylor Swift.

Join us this weekend, because you wouldn’t want to disappoint Malala, would you?

Hosting this week’s waitwait episode. Show day shoes pictured.

While we continue to work with Apple Podcasts to fix the Subscriber Only bug, we just wanted to thank everyone for their patience.

If you didn’t mean to subscribe and want some info on how to undo that, follow the instructions from Apple here:

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Hey friends, we’re currently investigating why Apple Podcasts is listing the show as subscription only, and will hopefully have it fixed soon.

The Wait Wait podcast will always be free and Wait Wait+ will offer a sponsor-free version and bonus content.

Our guest this week is Geena Davis (Geena Davis Institute)! We'll be talking about everything from Thelma and Louise to her early gig as a living mannequin, to her show Mission Unstoppable.

So, grab your best friend, hop in a '66 Thunderbird, turn the radio on, and watch out for cliffs!

The late great Burt Bacharach on waitwait.

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Our first road show of 2023 is in beautiful Tucson on March 23rd!

Tickets are available NOW, and in honor of the city’s silent ‘c’, Peter is officially changing the spelling of his name to Peter Csagal:

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Got to guest host waitwait this week with incredible panelists Adam Burke Helen Hong and ZAINAB JOHNSON. Our Not My Job Guest was the legendary Billy Porter. You can't see it cause it's radio but we were both wearing this outfit.

Today we wish a resounding 'Happy 30th Birthday!' to our own @petersagal.bsky.social!

Peter is one of the smartest, funniest, and most generous souls we know, which is probably why he insisted that, in lieu of gifts, you just Venmo me directly

Well, this is a shocking way to find out we’re not a true crime podcast like I thought

So, some news:

Meet Theodore Reeve Sagal, named for his great uncle Theodore Scholnick and his grandmother Reeva Scholnick Sagal, both of whom died before they could make his acquaintance.

Thanks to NPR's generous parental leave policy, negotiated for me by my union, SAG-AFTRA, I will be taking time off from waitwait until late March. You will be in excellent hands, all of which will be less poopy than mine will be.

Chicago!

Our beloved MazJobrani will be at The Den Theatre this weekend, so cancel all of your plans immediately and go see him instead.

Tickets available below:

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Still, I think we can all admit that this is better than in 2021, when the FBI kept finding Yassified documents in people's homes