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Chapter 1: What is the format of 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me'?
From NPR at WBEZ Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I've got the voice of an angel and the body of a hot angel. I'm Bill Curtis, and here is your host at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, the Roy Peter Sago.
Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody. Thank you so much.
We have got such a great show for you today. Later on, we're going to be talking to Lauren Graham, star of the legendary TV show, The Gilmore Girls, a show so beloved that 25 years after it debuted, people still rewatch it in times of extreme stress, just for its calming, cheering effect. So today, we are not sure if we should interview her or just have her reenact season one.
But first, we want to be soothed and reassured by the sound of your voice. So give us a call. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Let's welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you are on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
Hi, this is Rebecca Vaughn calling from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Nantucket, Massachusetts. There once was a listener from Nantucket.
I was about to say, what a shame you're not playing our listener limerick challenge. That would be ideal. What do you do in that beautiful island?
I help to run a sailing program for a yacht club and enjoy the off season when it's nice and quiet.
Right, right. I have friends who live on Martha's Vineyard and I know what it's like. It's like the summer is just filled with all these rich people, but in the winter they all leave. And I assume you just walk around breaking into their houses and pretending you're wealthy.
We try to avoid doing that, but it is a little bit tempting.
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Chapter 2: Who is the special guest on this episode?
That was a commenter on a Wall Street Journal piece about how publishers are planning to stop putting out what kind of books? Actual printed books? Well, a particular kind of printed books. There are, in general, two kinds. There's the hardbacks. Oh, hardcovers. No, the other one. Yes, say goodbye to paperback books. You cannot now wait for the paperback version of a book you want to come out.
The publishing industry is moving to a model where it is going to be the hardcover or nothing.
That makes me so sad. Who is clapping?
People who like fancy shows.
No, no, this makes sense. The publisher's plans to make all books much heavier and more expensive will be great for sales. This apparently is because of a lot of things affecting the publishing industry. Among them, the fact that instead of buying paperbacks or hardbacks, most people are now reading books on e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble. Oh, that's so cute.
too i was hoping you'd say what it was because i couldn't yeah you can have hard hard book hard uh books though hard books hard books i don't like hard books i like the books they're rigid will work with me great But they look good on a shelf. I know, they're so beautiful.
And I think some people buy them to display. There's a Japanese word, because Japanese have the best words for all these things. It's sundoku. It's your pile of books that you're never going to read. It just makes you look smart. I will say, I had every intention of reading them.
I just didn't.
So the way it's going to work is instead of there being a paperback release for every hardback, which sort of was the tradition, right? Writers get one shot. If the hardback doesn't sell, they're done, right? They don't get a paperback release. That really will raise the stakes for hardback sales, especially for those, you know, serious, more obscure, less popular authors.
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Chapter 3: How does the game 'Who's Bill this time?' work?
No.
That's my plan, though, actually.
Well, gosh, I mean... Most people, most of the time you're recommended you show up two hours before this.
Oh, your flight?
Your flight, yes, in a challenge designed... That makes you sweat. Exactly. In a challenge designed to make your dad furious... The airport theory trend suggests that with modern airports and everything else, you only need to arrive at the airport 15 minutes before your departure time in order to make your flight. No, no, no. No, it's perfect.
No, I'm going to absolutely do this on Thanksgiving with my two small children and my non-refundable fares, and it's going to be awesome.
If you get there so close, you don't get to kick back and enjoy a little packet of $1,000 crackles. That's true.
Enjoying each one because they cost $40 each. Over the last month, TikTok has been full of people testing out this theory. Coincidentally, and this is true, in the last month, Google searches for I missed my flight have gone up 645%. Roy, we've all experienced our banks going digital, so we do things on our apps now, on our phones. A new organization has also moved to digital banking. What is it?
It's a bank that all of us, well, almost all of us have been to.
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