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Peter Sagal

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
11036 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

Or C. All the wrestlers are covered in olive oil to make them more slippery.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

The audience of people are shouting C, olive oil, with a little too much enthusiasm.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

It is olive oil, in fact.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

Olive oil wrestling in Turkey goes back more than 600 years.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

It's a hallowed tradition.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

There you are.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

All right, here's your next question.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

You did that well.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

In the village high in the mountains of Peru, the people there celebrate an event called the Tecanaqui every Christmas day.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

What happens at the Tecanaqui?

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

A, everybody tries to beat up everybody else to get them back for slights that happened during the preceding year.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

B, people attempt to beat a llama in a spitting fight, or C, it's a giant Christmas-themed martial arts match called Gold, Frankincense, and Murder.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

I'm going to go with B. You're going to go with B, people attempt to beat a llama.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

No, it was actually the first one, as the narrator of a documentary about it says, it's like Yom Kippur, but with punching.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

All right, this is fine.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

If you get this last one right, you win.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

In Florence, Italy, they still play this ancient ball game called calcio storico, where players can do anything they like to the opposing player, resulting in all kinds of injuries.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

But the game was even crazier back when it began in the Middle Ages, because organizers often did what in the middle of a match?

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

A, threw a bucket of knives into the playing area.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach

B, alerted certain players that other certain players had slept with their wives.