Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! - Wait Wait's Letter from the Editors VI

Episode Date: December 16, 2020

A bonus podcast featuring material from Wait Wait's cutting room floor. This week a special Holiday sampler of stories cut from the show and some green room holiday cheer.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

This is a little bit from old time radio. 3, 2, 1. Welcome to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me's Letter from the Editors, where we bring you stuff we recorded for the show, but had to cut. In the weather we can build a snowman. Pretend that he is Parson Brown. Check, check, check. One, one, one.

Is Parson a vegetable? A Christmas vegetable? Hello, hello, hello. You're asking if a Parson is a Christmas vegetable? Are you thinking of Parsnip? I think you're thinking of Parsnip. Oh, you're thinking of a Parsnip. I think it might be.

We'll be right back. Welcome to this week's Letter from the Editors. I'm Mike, and I'm here with Jennifer. Ho, ho, ho, hello. And this is our last bonus podcast for 2020. Mike, I'm feeling embarrassed about how I said ho, ho, ho, hello. But let's keep going. Just plug on through.

Just plug it on through. We want to leave our listeners with a little holiday treat. On this cookie platter. You'll get panel questions that didn't make the show. These are cookies maybe that fell off the platter and are now sitting on the floor broken. Or think of these as that one spiced cookie that you're unsure of the flavor profile. So you leave it till the end. And then when you try it, you love it. Here's more with Mo Rocca, Maeve Higgins adam burke and guest host maz jabrani mo a man in italy got caught violating a coronavirus curfew when he did what um i mean

can you give me a clue i will give you a clue so this man got in trouble because he was out when he shouldn't have been out and it and and there was a reason why he left his house what's some reasons a man might leave his house okay his house was on fire or it's italian so maybe he found his wife in bed with marcello mastroianni very close i'm gonna have to i'm gonna have to just tell you what it was. He got in a fight with his wife and went on a walk to calm down and kept walking for 280 miles. Oh, God almighty. The Italians do everything to excess. There's no details about the argument, but it's safe to say he definitely didn't win.

You have to wonder if the argument was like, bet you can't walk 279 miles. And he was like, oh, I'm going to show you. Mo, as the nation continues with online learning through the next several months, NPR reports that some students and teachers are upset there's not going to be what this winter? There's not going to be what this winter? There's not going to be a Christmas vacation. No. What else do you get during winter? What else do kids get that's a surprise?

A snow day. They're not going to have snow days. Yes, snow days aren't a problem if you have school available online. So you never have to cancel school. You know, some teachers are pushing back as well, saying, quote, some children need to be able to get to schools and, quote, give me this. It's all I have.

I feel so bad for teachers. I do too, because they can't reach through a laptop and slap the children. You can only do that when the children are in front of you. Right. Times they have changed. Also, I mean, the temptation to have a couple of drinks while you're teaching

from home is going to be pretty irresistible, right? Because, I mean, like at a certain age, a kid's not going to know you're drunk. Like kindergarten, you can teach blocks. I had a ninth grade English teacher who always, I think she had a flask because when you go to ask her questions, she was from the South, and she said,

darling, let me tell you, and you could smell the booze coming off. I was like, is Miss V drinking some whiskey? Old-fashioned. Yes. There's a certain class. I mean, if your teacher is julep drunk, Like, is Miss V drinking some whiskey? Old-fashioned. At recess? There's a certain class. I mean, if your teacher is julep drunk, I feel like that's not as bad. Especially if she's teaching you, like, Tennessee Williams or something. It really was.

It was that teacher, you know? I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. This is V. We're in geography. We're in geography. We're in geography. That does it for this week's Letter from the Editors, and really this whole series of Letter from the Editors podcasts. Thank you for joining us on this journey. As one last little gift,

we have a rare peek behind the curtain of our Zoom virtual green room. Here's a little chat between our panel. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. Hey! Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. A day or two ago, I thought I'd take a ride, and soon

Miss Fanny Bright was seated by my side. Doesn't anyone know the verse? We're not just going to do the chorus. No, I know Dashing Through the Snow. The horse was lean and lank. Misfortune was his lot. He got into it, and then he got upset. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle, jingle, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle, jingle,

jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle, jingle, jingle bells, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle Not Bill Cosby. Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby. Do not drink the eggnog. Thanks, everybody. Bye. Bye, guys. Bye. Thank you. Happy holidays.

Bye. I'll pick you up in Dublin, babe. Thanks, Bill.