We got tickets to... wait wait!

[Tenigma]

NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me is going to Berkeley in February and we got two tickets! Woot.

The flyer from Cal went out this week and I wouldn't have known about it except that my cube neighbor is a Cal theater patron and got next season's promo/schedule brochure in the mail. It turns out she will also be at Friday's performance although I don't know where they are sitting.

I bought my tix online but she is Old School and phoned them for tickets--and found out that half the tickets have sold in just the last three days alone. They expected it to be sold out by next weekend. Yow!

[Snowflake]

I love Wait! Wait, don't tell me!

[Ghoulish Delight]

I was so pissed off when we went to Chicago last year only to find out that the week we were there, Wait Wait was on the road. LOVE that show, listen religiously. Never fails to make me laugh out loud.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

JEALOUS

[flippyshark]

That's great. Easily my favorite program on NPR.

[lindyhop]

I'm so jealous.

[frodo potter]

What a great show It's always a toss up for me between that and "Whad'Ya Know?" for the best show on NPR.

[libraryvixen]

Lucky you!! I LOVE Wait, Wait!!

I hope Mo Rocca is on the panel you watch (I heart him!)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Hmm, never heard Whad'ya know, I'll have to check it out.

I like Says You too, I wish they'd podcast it.

[Alex]

I like Says You about half of the time. But mostly it is just on at a time I am almost never listening to the radio.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I like Says You about half of the time. But mostly it is just on at a time I am almost never listening to the radio.Which is why I wish they'd podcast it. I'd actually be able to listen, and to skip when it sucks.

[Alex]

And if they podcast it I could listen to the whole show. Our NPR only plays a shortened version. But they're web site says that they are independent of NPR so they have to pay for their own distribution so they have to charge.

[Ghoulish Delight]

They could use This American Life's model. Make only the most recent episode available for free, charge for the catalog, and ask for donations.

[Alex]

They could, but I suspect they don't have the huge listening audience of TAL to be able to put a lot of financial faith in the listening audience (if nothing else TAL is probably making enough off of other revenue streams that it can more easily risk taking a bath for a short period if the experiment doesn't work).


Oh well, my new position at work has eliminated most of podcast listening time anyway. I'm not set up to easily get them onto my iPod so I always listened to them at my desk at work where I had hours on end of uninterrupted time. Don't have that any more.

[lindyhop]

I have a weekly appointment reminder on my cell phone for Says You so I don't forget to listen. I love that show.