NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! live (9/28)

WFSB 3; WTTW; Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Los Angeles Greek Theatre

"Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me" on the road

(WFSB 3) June 20, 2023: The iconic NPR quiz show is recorded each week with some of the funniest comedians alongside Host Peter Sagal and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis.

Local News from WFSB (wfsb.com, YouTube Content: @wfsb).

Thomas E. Perez on Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me! with host Peter Sagal in Chicago (Wiki)

Host Peter Sagal and new young trophy wife

The funniest and by far the most popular show on NPR is "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" because it tells the week's news in a digestible way -- through humor. Who knew it traveled around to different parts of the country to be in front a live audience?

"Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" NPR gameshow

It does though it seems to usually be at one live venue in Chicago called home. Tonight, it's made it to the big time, Hollywood! The secret life of the show, icon Carl Kasell, will be in attendance in spirit.

• Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! | 7:30 pm, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 Los Angeles Greek Theatre (TICKETS)

Los Angeles has a "Central Park" called Griffith Park, a wilderness above and behind the glittering lights of Tinsel Town, in Hollywood's backyard, connected to the largest public parkland in the country, which is the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

Chicago Tonight visits "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!"

(WTTW) Nov. 19, 2008: #WTTWnews goes behind the scenes at a taping of "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"  The popular NPR comedy game show celebrated its 10th anniversary in June 2008. (Chicago Tonight: wttw.com/chicagotonight).

"I Love P-22" mountain lion memorial for LA's favorite wild cat (LAist/KPCC.org)

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It's so big that man-eating mountain lions (pumas or nonhuman cougars) -- like LA's beloved dead mascot P-22 (whose funeral was at the Greek) -- can live there, hunting by night, sleeping under people's houses in the Valley by day.

• History of the Greek Theatre (lagreektheatre.com)

(WWDTM) What is Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!? Bob Seger 9/2/23 episode

Poet Olivia Gatwood on sex; Doja Cat rap

Maxim George, glamourbiz.com, 8/31/20; Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

My looks have nothing to do with my success. Well, it doesn't hurt to be easy on the eyes.

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Who is Olivia Gatwood? Brief career details

Do you think I'm pretty? I'm grown up now and have a newer book I want people to see.

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Olivia Gatwood is an American poet and sex ed enthusiast, whose works on topics include coming of age, feminism, gendered violence, and true crime.

She gained "recognition for her outstanding poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery."

My "What Sex Becomes" poem

Some of her literary works include "Hey Science," "Two Poems," "Poetry Suite," "Ode to the Women on Long Island," "Back-Pedal," "Mans/Laughter," "The Autocross," "Manic Pixie Dream Girl," "Ode to my Bitch Face," and many others.

Well, I suppose rhyming is hard work, too.

Who is she? Olivia Gatwood, 28 [31 in 2023], is a poet, writer, and activist. She is a feminist and advocate through her literary works. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Her birthday falls on Feb. 23, daughter of Jill and [Lord] Byron Gatwood, who spent three years in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Tobago. It was at this time that she began writing, at the age of 11, at the suggestion of a librarian. More

When NPR is FUNNY (audio)

Host Peter Sagal, Announcer Bill Kurtis (NPR.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me, July 13, 2019, KCRW.org/SCPR.org); Sheldon S., Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The faces behind the funny weekly news quiz on NPR (tvtropes.org)

Bill Kurtis, Peter Sagal, others during a live taping of "Wait Wait..." (clevescene.com)

• AUDIO: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me COMEDY
  

• Announcer Carl Kasell "was kind down to his bones"
• Robert Mueller testimony delayed until July 24, 2019
• Disturbing: Child molester Epstein's house RAID Registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's home in NY was raided, and the findings are BIZARRE. Trump has ties, and famous former friends jump ship.

(RT America) US presidents  who rode Jeff Epstein's "Lolita Express"

Tibetan teaching: "Enlightenment is..."

The Freedom of Buddhahood

Anam Thubten Rimpoche, Dharmata Foundation

Buddha-hood is the discovery of freedom. This is not freedom from the outside but freedom from within. It is freedom from our own mind distorting reality. As long as we are looking for freedom from outside we are doing the wrong thing and the fundamental suffering of hope and fear will perpetuate.

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Real freedom is freedom from our own conceptions, from the psychological veil that is distorting the way things are. When we are free from our own unenlightened mind, that internal veil, we see that even our problems are divine. Everything is a manifestation of great emptiness. That means that everything is divine. We have to love everything including the dark side of the world. We have to love whatever life presents to us. Are we ready to let go of all of our resistance and see all of life as divine, as a manifestation of Supreme Source? This is a practical discipline.

When we are encountering difficulties in life can we simply learn how to love what is? When things are falling apart, when we are having bad hair days, when life is mistreating us, can we find a way to love it? Some day we are all going to die. We may die alone or we may die surrounded by friends. No one knows how or when they will die. But we all have to find a way to love that we are dying.

What is happening to us right now? Are we dis-liking reality? We have a simple goal – to love all of reality. We have to love everything. We are always relating to reality based on preconceived notions rather than the way things are. Things are perfectly perfect the way they are. Confidence is knowing that everything is perfect. We all have moments of being completely melted, moments when we surrender our ego completely. There is the possibility of being in that place every moment. This requires work, the work of reflection and meditation practice.

Our greatest karmic tendency is that we feel we need to have control of everything. We need to control our reality. What is the opposite of this? It is to wait and do nothing.

Sometimes we feel that we are dancing in an ocean of ecstasy. But sometimes we lose our awareness and we get lost in confusion. We merely have to wait. We don't know how to wait. We have to do something. All of our habits of tension well up. We want to declare a national emergency in our own world.

All human beings hate waiting. I remember being in India and waiting in line for train tickets. People were pushing and shoving because they couldn't stand waiting. We have tremendous aversion to waiting. Ego is afraid of not knowing. Our idea of certainty is based on ego. Our mind has to be preoccupied by notions that there is security and certainty in every moment. Ego needs to hear, "Everything is secure." Ego is terrified of uncertainty. Ego can't accept reality.

It takes many years of meditation to realize that we have no conflict with reality. This absence of conflict, this acceptance of all conditions and events as a perfect display of Supreme Source is very simple and portable knowledge. We have never had a conflict with reality.

Whenever you feel conflict remember, "This is not my problem. I have no problem with reality. This is ego's problem." Ego is always insecure and falling apart. Reality is mighty. It rules the whole of existence. When you are able to surrender to reality, you will experience a great awakening. The act of surrendering to reality is enlightenment. It happens suddenly, spontaneously, at a very unexpected moment.... Read more

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