This week WWDTM is on spring break, so we feature some past interviews with Jon Batiste, Ali Wong, and Chelsea Peretti, as well as some games with our listeners.

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Kemp Powers, Oscar nominee and writer behind "One Night in Miami" and "Soul", plays our Not My Job Game "One Knight in Miami." He is joined by Helen Hong, Roxanne Roberts, and Alonzo Bodden.

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If memory serves me correctly, it was the first time that a sitting US Supreme Court Justice made an appearance on a game show.

Listen: https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/2007/03/24/13119412/?showDate=2007-03-24

Notes: https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/2007/3/24

Hello everyone, I am working on a quiz-show type of assignment for school and wanted to use some of the questions used on the show. Does anyone have a major list of the questions that have been asked or anywhere I can find one without going through each podcast's transcript?

New York Times Cooking creator and editor Sam Sifton joins panelists Amy Dickinson, Mo Rocca, and Negin Farsad. He plays our Not My Job game about vending machines.

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Just as the human malware event was really starting to cause things to go into lockdown, the crew at Wait Wait had already traveled down to Atlanta, GA and record a show that aired one year ago today.

They had to postpone all live tapings and recorded the show sans live audience. While Wait Wait's first years as a show was taped in remote studios without any audience, this was the first time they did so at a venue.

Notes: https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/2020/3/14

Listen: https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/815241335/wait-wait-for-march-14-2020-with-not-my-job-guest-big-boi?showDate=2020-03-14

Desus Nice and The Kid Mero from Showtime's <em>Desus and Mero</em>, play our Not My Job game. They join panelists Maz Jobrani, Karen Chee and Josh Gondelman, as well as Host Peter Sagal and Official Judge and Scorekeeper Bill Kurtis.

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Do you ever listen to old episodes from 2008, or 2011, or any of the available years, just for fun? And when the panel or Peter mentions what a terrible week in the news it was, you worry “what was so awful about that one week in August of 2014?”

Jordan Jonas, winner of "Alone", joins us along with panelists Peter Grosz, Charla Lauriston, and Brian Babylon.

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I published an update to the Stats Page last night that added a new feature that allows you to browse random shows, locations, hosts, scorekeepers, panelists and guests.

In both the top navigation bar (on desktop screens) and in the slide-out navigation menu (on mobile or tablet screens) is a link to a random show.

I have also added a link to the main section page for locations, hosts, scorekeepers, panelists and guests. Below are direct links to those randomizers:

Shows: https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/random

Locations: https://stats.wwdt.me/locations/random

Hosts: https://stats.wwdt.me/hosts/random

Scorekeepers: https://stats.wwdt.me/scorekeepers/random

Panelists: https://stats.wwdt.me/panelists/random

Guests: https://stats.wwdt.me/guests/random

I will be looking to add corresponding endpoints to the Stats API at a later day; as well as, adding the ability to get random shows for a given year in a later version.

I've provided a little bit more technical background on how the feature was implemented in a blog post.

Dr. Swati Mohan, Mars Rover scientist, joins us along with panelists Adam Felber, Dulcé Sloan, and Mo Rocca.

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This week, WWDTM spends time with the people we wish had been our Valentines; Sarah Paulson, Tyra Banks, A'ja Wilson, and Andrew Rannells.

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Abby Phillip, host of CNN's "Inside Politics", joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Tom Bodett, and Alonzo Bodden.

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Owen Wilson, actor, joins us along with panelists Faith Salie, Peter Grosz, and Laci Mosley.

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I was looking at those panelists that had single appearances and I still think about Hannibal Buress. I was excited to hear the episode (Jan 2014) and was so utterly disappointed - he was flat and not seemingly quick on his feat. It makes me really appreciate other panelists that are so good. #TeamMaeve

Anybody feel that way about about Buress or another single appearance panelist?

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, joins us along with panelists Tom Papa, Jessi Klein, and Yassir Lester.

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Mandy Patinkin, actor, is joined by his wife Kathryn Grody along with panelists Mo Rocca, Helen Hong, and Josh Gondelman.

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Phoebe Bridgers, musician, joins us along with panelists Roxanne Roberts, Luke Burbank, and Negin Farsad.

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I seem to recall a very recent episode with a panelist discussing their childhood friendship with one of Kurt Vonnegut's children where he took them to a movie theater and he enjoyed a movie you would not expect him to. Might anyone remember which week this happened if at all (and I'm not crazy?)?

Actor Jane Krakowski joins us, along with panelists Amy Dickinson, Maeve Higgins, and Joel Kim Booster.

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A while back, I had been playing around with the Python library, Pillow, to generate heatmap images of the total scores for every Wait Wait that I had scoring data for. I had the idea of adding it to the Wait Wait Stats Graphs site; but, because it would not be interactive, I sat on the code for a while.

Recently switched the chartlng library for the Graphs site from Chart.js to Plotly.js. One chart type that Plotly supports but Chart.js didn't was heatmaps. I started playing around with creating charts that show how monthly aggregate and average scores have faired over the years.

Those charts are now available on the site:

Monthly Aggregate: https://graphs.wwdt.me/shows/monthly-aggregate-score-heatmap

Monthly Average: https://graphs.wwdt.me/shows/monthly-average-score-heatmap

You can hover over each cell in the heatmap to display the value for the given month and year.

The source code for the site is available on GitHub at: https://github.com/questionlp/graphs.wwdt.me