Did you catch this week’s witty radio mainstay “Wait wait don’t tell me?” Legions of fans of Wait Wait follow host Peter Sagal’s chatter and quip call-in format with listeners. He most always asks them where they’re calling from. So what did he say when Elizabeth Stephens declared she’s from here?
PETER SAGAL: “I love Gloucester.”
Have a listen and thanks to John and Alexandra from Alexandra’s Bread in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for sharing. Congratulations to caller Elizabeth Stephens! I’d love to hear more about what it was like and how it came about. And the mystery greenhouse you’ll be managing? Great fun to hear you and Gloucester on the radio.
transcript excerpt and link to full show below the break
BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT… DON’T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. Let me toss your salad. I’m…
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KURTIS: I’m Bill-samic (ph) vinaigrette.
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KURTIS: I’m Bill Kurtis. And here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.
PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Thank you, Bill. Thanks, everybody.
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SAGAL: We have a wonderful show for you today because we are going to fix Washington…
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SAGAL: …By which I mean one of the great disappointments about Washington is that it’s nothing like “The West Wing.” We want the real Washington to have snappy dialogue, the soaring speeches, the perfect comebacks. And then we want it to be canceled.
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SAGAL: Well, later in the show, Aaron Sorkin himself, the creator of “The West Wing” and “The Social Network” and “The Newsroom,” will come on to punch up reality itself. But first, we are interested in your snappy dialogue, so give us a call. The number is 1-888-WAIT-WAIT – that’s 1-888-924-8924.
Now let’s welcome our first listener contestant. Hi, you are on WAIT WAIT… DON’T TELL ME.
ELIZABETH STEPHENS: Hi. This is Elizabeth Stephens, and I’m from Gloucester, Mass.
SAGAL: Gloucester.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: Hey.
SAGAL: I love Gloucester.
(CHEERING)
SAGAL: What do you do there?
transcript for this portion of the show: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=699562979
Good Morning Gloucester 