#WaitWaitDontTellMe this week sponsored by the new #DepecheMode album and oh god I am so old and #CulturallyIrrelevant

This week’s episode of #WaitWaitDontTellMe is hilarious with guest host Alzo Slade
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157244228/rosie-perez-on-her-first-meeting-with-spike-lee

Current status: Listening to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me on #NPR ##WYPR and cleaning the bathroom. Life is good! #waitwaitdonttellme @WYPR881FM

My 1.1 minutes of fame, courtesy WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME! The parents were so proud. #WaitWait #limerick #NPR #WBEZ #biology #fungi #dessert #FoodPhotography #WaitWaitDontTellMe

Bill Kurtis got in a "Stay Classy, San Diego" in this weekend's #WaitWaitDontTellMe (the date in the URL doesn't match the airdate) https://www.npr.org/2022/11/15/1136884298/dana-carvey-snl-impressions

This day in #WaitWaitDontTellMe history:

On the #WaitWait that aired 20 years ago today, panelist Paula Poundstone had answered zero questions correctly during the show's Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round. It was the first occurrence since January 2000 (scoring data is not available for shows prior to January 2000).

Both Paula and Maeve Higgins would go on and have two shows each where they have answered zero Lightning round questions correct.

Report: https://reports.wwdt.me/shows/lightning-round-zero-correct

Yeah, the audience was appropriately confused when the first caller on this weekend's #WaitWaitDontTellMe introduced herself as "a turf writer" before explaining she writes about horse racing...

@Lorenanicole @ThePSF #Python hobby developer here. I've built a set of websites and APIs for #WaitWaitDontTellMe Stats using Python and either #Flask or #FastAPI.

Stats Page: https://stats.wwdt.me
Graphs: https://graphs.wwdt.me
Reports: https://reports.wwdt.me
API: https://api.wwdt.me

Source for all of those projects are out on GitHub at https://github.com/questionlp

For the #WaitWaitDontTellMe listeners out there...

For the shows that aired from January 2000 through November 2017, the highest score that any panelist has gotten was 20 points. That required starting the Lightning round with 4 points and answering all 8 questions correctly.

On the show that aired 5 years ago today, Roxanne started the round with 5 points and answered all 8 questions correct, for a total of 21 points!

🎧: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/11/563397588/lightning-fill-in-the-blank

For the past 5+ years, I have been taking notes for every #WaitWaitDontTellMe show that I listen to so that I can enter that data into the Stats Page database. It helps me focus on listening to the show and has helped me go back to see some details that I don't always enter into as show notes.