A surprise snow day for the White House press corps
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What is the opening premise and who are the panelists on this episode?
From NPR and WBEZ, Chicago, this is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz. I'm Alzo Slade, your judge and scorekeeper. And if it helps, you can picture me in a little referee uniform. Here's your host at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, Peter Sago. Thank you all.
Thank you, Omaha! Thank you. What a delight to be making our debut here at Long Last. Later on, we are going to be talking to the legendary former coach of the Nebraska Corn Huskers volleyball team, John Cook. His team once played in front of the largest crowd ever to see a woman's sporting event. 92,000 people. And Whose regular games season after season drew a crowd of ten thousand people. So when he walks out here in this sold out twenty six hundred seat theater, we assumed be like, yes, so where is everybody? But first, we want you to compete in front of this crowd when you call in to play our games. The number is one triple eight. Wait, wait, that's one eight eight eight nine two four eight nine two four.
Now let's welcome our first listener contestant. How are you run? Wait, wait, don't tell me. Hi Peter, this is John calling from Syracuse, New York. Hey John, how are things in Syracuse?
Uh not cold yet,
but they will be. I know, you get that every year in upstate New York. What do you do there?
I work as a legal aide in our local district attorney's office.
Oh wow. My my uh my expectation would be that the district attorney in a place like Syracuse gets to deal with all kinds of raffish kind of criminals.
Oh
definitely, yeah. Yeah wide variety. So what your job lacks in pay it makes up an entertainment.
That yes, it def yeah, it definitely does.
Well, let me introduce you to our panel, John. First up it's a comedian out on tour who you can see this very weekend at the Laughing Tap in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It's Dulce Sloan! Well. Next up a comedian who's on tour all fall with the next stop October 2nd and 3rd at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. It's Josh Gondelman.
Hello. Thank you for thank you for having me.
And a contributor to CBS Sunday morning and co-host of the new podcast, You Could Make This Beautiful. It's Faith Sailing. So, John, you're gonna play Who's Alzo? This time, Alzo Slade standing right here is gonna read you three quotations from this week's news. As you probably know, your job is to correctly identify or explain. Just two of them. Do that, you will win our prize. Any voice from our show you might choose for your voicemail. Are you ready to do this? I'm ready to go. Let's do it. Uh here's your first quote: it's from a CNN journalist. Very happy to
do
be getting back to work here. That journalist said she was happy to get back to work where after journalists from CNN, MSNow and Politico had been banned all week. Uh that would be the White House. The White House, yes The journalists were banned. Oh no, without White House press briefings, how will we hear how great the war in Iran is going? So the president banned these three outlets, the networks immediately went to court, got an order letting them back in. But were they really happy about that? Getting banned from this White House must be like when a friend cancels plans and you have to pretend you're upset. Oh shoot, I was really looking forward to hearing you yell next to a helicopter.
You think they were really sad or is it one of them days it was like a snow day as a kid? Yeah. They just like Oh no, I don't have to go cover the president talk. Oh no.
No totally, right? Because they must be such dedicated journalists because they were probably just forgetting what stale Big Mac smells like.
How does the “Bump, Set, Spike” quiz with John Cook work and what were the questions?
Now I I want to say that the judge's decision said that the White House pulled the passes without really explaining why, and you cannot do that. The Constitution forbids the government from being a dad who sends you to your room on the grounds you know what you did.
So you're telling me that there are things that this president is doing that's not constitutional?
I'm sorry if I broke that to you suddenly. That doesn't no I'm a Bill said
that doesn't sound right.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening premise and who are the panelists on this episode?
0:04–4:12
2
How does the “Bump, Set, Spike” quiz with John Cook work and what were the questions?
4:12–11:07
3
Why were CNN journalists banned from the White House and what constitutional issues were raised?
11:07–19:12
4
What is the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and why is it generating buzz?
19:12–26:44
5
How are “cat dads” being portrayed in the media and why is the term controversial?
26:44–47:40