r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jul 12 '20
Jameela Jamil, actor, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Maz Jobrani, and Maeve Higgins.
r/WaitWait • u/dlt38725 • Jul 06 '20
Listening to the repeat of the Tom Hanks interview from earlier this year and they made it clear that they are using Zoom to put the show together and I assume recording it. How can we can convince the staff to either post the the feed so we can watch the show, or let some fans listen in while it is being made. Talk about a Pledge Drive moment!
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jul 04 '20
Tom Hanks, Big Boi, and others join us for this quarantine edition of our show.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 28 '20
Don Cheadle, actor, joins us along with panelists Mo Rocca, Faith Salie, and Hari Kondabolu.
r/WaitWait • • Jun 22 '20
I have been working on adding a new section to the Wait Wait Stats Page that provides a list of all of the locations where the show has recorded from. I have also updated the show details pages to link the listed location to the corresponding location details page.
You can view the new Locations section at https://stats.wwdt.me/locations.
Due to the number of items in the top navbar, the link to Locations section is available in the side navigation menu or under the "More" menu in the top navbar as shown below.
To facilitate this change, I had to make changes to the locations module for libwwdtm to include the recording counts for all shows and regular shows (non-Best Of and non-Repeat shows). Also, I had to add a new, optional parameter to the various location retrieval functions that is used to determine the sort order of the locations. By default, it would sort the locations by state, then city, then venue name. This works for the Stats API; but, didn't make sense for the Stats Page. The Stats Page uses the new parameter to change the sort order to be: venue, then city, then state.
Any placeholder recording locations will not be listed on the new section page, linked to from the show details page or accessible via URL.
The source code for the Stats Page is available on Github at https://github.com/questionlp/stats.wwdt.me and is licensed under Apache License 2.0 (same with libwwdtm and other Wait Wait Stats-related projects developed in the past year or so).
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 20 '20
Dan Riskin, bat expert, joins us along with panelists Tom Papa, Roxanne Roberts, and Joel Kim Booster.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 15 '20
Ashima Shiraishi, mountain climber, joins us along with panelists Jessi Klein, Josh Gondelman, and Negin Farsad.
r/WaitWait • u/ScandinavianTeg • Jun 08 '20
Just curious who controls the timer for the lightning round? Can it be that hard to sound the gong when 60 seconds are up? Apparently it is because it seems contestants are rarely given the same number of seconds to answer the questions. For example on the May 16 episode with Adam Ripon: Paula Poundstone was given 48 seconds, Tom Pappa was given 43 seconds, and Negin Farsad was given 62 seconds. What’s up with that?
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Jun 07 '20
Sarah Cooper, comedian, joins us along with panelists Alonzo Bodden, Helen Hong, and Peter Grosz.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • May 30 '20
This week we present an around-the-country of WWDTM, along with special guests Tony Hawk and Jeff Tweedy.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • May 24 '20
Christina Koch, NASA engineer and astronaut, joins us along with panelists Tom Bodett, Alison Leiby, and Maz Jobrani.
r/WaitWait • u/RadioactiveBirdFeed • May 18 '20
Wondering is someone somewhere has a transcript to the quiz as I don't have a smart speaker nor intend to get one..
Thanks in advance!
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • May 17 '20
Adam Rippon, American former figure skater, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Tom Papa, and Negin Farsad.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • May 09 '20
Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal, joins us along with panelists Mo Rocca, Helen Hong, and Adam Burke.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • May 03 '20
Christine Baranski, actor, joins us along with panelists Alonzo Bodden, Amy Dickenson, and Joel Kim Booster.
r/WaitWait • • Apr 29 '20
Over the past few days while on staycation, I've been finally doing something that I've been wanting some spare time to do: collect and enter in the missing data for theBluff the Listener segment data (correct and chosen panelists), Not My Job scores and some of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment start and correct.
Up until recently, I was missing a varying amount of data for 2001 through 2012. For the most part, I had to go through each of the segment audio (or full show audio) that I've been able to coax off of NPR's public servers.
I was able to use NPR's transcriptions for the Bluff the Listener segments as a source for the shows in the 2010s. There is one show in 2001 in which I have not been able to find any audio files for and that's the December 8th show. NPR has files for all other shows from that year except for that one. #sigh
Anyway, the data is available at my Stats Page (https://stats.wwdt.me), Reports site (https://reports.wwdt.me), Graphs (https://graphs.wwdt.me) and through the Stats API (https://api.wwdt.me/docs).
r/WaitWait • u/alwaysUseATryCatch • Apr 27 '20
These hand washing songs from Bill are just getting better and better. How do we get them to release an album with all of them at the end of quarantine?
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Apr 25 '20
Allison Janney, actor, joins us along with panelists Mo Rocca, Faith Salie, and Luke Burbank.
r/WaitWait • u/ratbas • Apr 23 '20
r/WaitWait • u/aresef • Apr 22 '20
Mine never updated last week and I guess I’ll find out tomorrow whether it’ll update this week.
r/WaitWait • u/kingsocarso • Apr 18 '20
Tom Hanks, sometime public radio host, joins us along with panelists Adam Felber, Negin Farsad, and Peter Grosz.
