(Or: You know you’re a nerd when)
- You start listening to Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! on NPR.
- You start scheduling housecleaning around the 10 a.m. Saturday airing of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! on your local station.
- You start missing several weekends’ worth of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! because you are traveling on weekends (and also because, to be honest, you really don’t clean), and: you actually find yourself fretting about it.
- You begin downloading podcasts of Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, and you have genuine feelings of joy and delight at being able to catch up on missed episodes.
- You walk laps on the track with Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! playing on your iPod, and when one of the panelists says something funn, you laugh out loud (in front of other people). Yes, you have become that person.
- You begin conversations with friends and family like this: “This past weekend? On Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! ? They were talking about how….”
- You are asked something about your what kind of a career you’d like later in life, and you actually struggle to keep from saying “panelist on, and/or writer for, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!*
*and also “Sound Opinions.” For all thee above.
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And you develop very definite views on the relative merits of the panelists. I’m sorry, but no one is as good as Paula. After Paula comes Roy Blount, Jr., then maybe Adam or Mo. But the mix of panelists is crucial!
So true! I like Roy B. Jr. too!
I guess that makes me a nerd too! Oh, well, it could be worse! Did you notice that last weekend’s podcast (Sep 10-12) was missing the Not My Job segment? THEN…the complete show appears this weekend. Very odd.
My mom and I get to talking about it almost every phone conversation, so I guess we’re both nerds! LOL
I agree with you about Paula (my mom’s favorite) and Mo and Adam but I also want to get my .02 for Paul Provenza. He can come up with some real zingers. And Amy Dickinson can hover in the background and then come up with a hilarious one-liner.
@ Nick, I didn’t notice that about the missing section, but I think I did see a Tweet saying something had been fixed. Um, yes….that means I follow “Wait, Wait” on Twitter, too.