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2026-01-17
I'm the voice so smooth, lullabies listen to me to fall asleepBill Kurtis
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Luke Burbank
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Hari Kondabolu
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rachel Coster
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Kali Reis Score: 3
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a celebrity encounter; Not My Job about the Consumer Electronics Show; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what we'll find when we travel back to the Moon
2026-01-10
I'm the voice so rich, it makes you sign a pre-nupBill Kurtis
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Paula Poundstone
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Joyelle Nicole Johnson
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 2
- Delroy Lindo Score: 2
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about an unlikely hero saving lives; Not My Job about the New Orleans Saints; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that we have a new food pyramid, what will be the next new food to go on sale?
Delroy Lindo asked the audience for help on the second Not My Job question. The audience yelled out "B", which Delroy chose as his answer and it was the correct answer.
While explaining the story behind the second limerick for Listener Limerick Challenge, Peter Sagal had a verbal slip by saying "Dick and Chain" instead of "Dick and Jane".
2026-01-03
That big ball in Times Square doesn't drop until it hears me count down from tenBill Kurtis
- Pedro Pascal Score: 3
- Chris Perfetti Score: 3
- Heather Gay Score: 3
Best Of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! by revisiting of all the fun from 2025
Tom Papa was the guest host for the 2025-08-09 show with Pedro Pascal as the Not My Job guest.
The Bluff the Listener segment came from the show that aired on 2025-03-22.
Negin Farsad was the guest host for the 2025-06-14 show with Chris Perfetti as the Not My Job guest.
Alzo Slade was the guest scorekeeper for the 2025-08-02 show with Heather Gay as the Not My Job guest.
As of 2026-01-10, this episode has not made it on to the podcast feeds. The full show audio is available on the episode's page on NPR.org.
2025-12-27
I'm the gift you get for the person who has everythingGuest: Alzo Slade
- Bob Costas Score: 3
- Carissa Moore Score: 3
- Jim Rice Score: 2
Best Of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! with guests and segments from the past year
Che "Rhymefest" Smith was the guest scorekeeper for the 2025-09-13 show with Bob Costas as the Not My Job guest.
Both the Bluff the Listener segment and the Not My Job segment with Carissa Moore were from the second show recorded on 2025-10-10 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since the Bluff the Listener segment is unique to this Best Of show, both the chosen panelist and the panelist with the correct story have been entered.
For Carissa Moore's second Not My Job question, she liked "A" and she also liked how Peter Sagal said "leather cardigan" for "B". Carissa asked Peter if both "A" and "B" are incorrect, leaving "C" to be the correct answer. Peter confirmed that "C" was the correct answer and that is what Carissa chose for her answer, which she got credit.
For the Panel Questions segment, the NPR.org transcripts lists the second panelist as Emmy Blotnick, even though the panelist sounds more like Amy Dickinson. Amy Dickinson, Alonzo Bodden and Shane O'Neill were the panelists for the 2025-09-06 show. Thus, I have included Amy into the list of panelists. The panel question for Alex Edelman was from the 2025-10-25 show with Hari Kondabolu and Faith Salie on the panel.
2025-12-20
I'm the voice Santa uses for the audiobook version of his naughty listBill Kurtis
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Josh Gondelman
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Paula Poundstone
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
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Hari Kondabolu
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Rhea Seehorn Score: 3
Who's Bill This Time?; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a new piece of smart tech in the news; Not My Job about Christmas carols; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the big Christmas present this year?
When Peter Sagal asked Bill Kurtis how Paula Poundstone did during Lightning Fill In The Blank, Bill said, "Six more, five right. She has a total of eleven". Paula had answered five questions correct for ten more points for a total of eleven.