Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
NPR · Comedy
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A fond farewell to brunch and also humankind | 52:18 | 5:09 | 7 | |
| We fold our phones and get roasted by Leslie Jones | 52:07 | 4:40 | 8 | |
| Our panel goes on shore leave with Maggie Smith | 51:34 | 5:10 | 8 | |
| Trade wars, what are they good for? | 47:14 | 0:21 | 1 | |
| The Wait Wait 2026 summer spectacular, part 2! | 52:25 | 5:21 | 8 | |
| The Wait Wait 2026 summer spectacular, part 1! | 51:56 | 4:40 | 7 | |
| Falling in love with an octopus, a dog, and Sally Field | 53:05 | 6:07 | 7 | |
| Betting on a graveyard of Cybertrucks with Mary Roach | 51:28 | 4:33 | 5 | |
| A tick-filled odyssey | 48:21 | 1:38 | 4 | |
| We skip the salad bar and have a banana instead | 47:25 | 0:55 | 2 | |
| Love Island and Pre-Teen Punks with Jason Narducy | 52:14 | 4:51 | 5 | |
| Celebrating the 4th with nothing but bangers! | 52:32 | 4:59 | 5 | |
| Reflecting Pools and Construction Zones | 52:24 | 5:18 | 6 | |
| The World Cup, Trad Wives, and the Wedding of the Century | 51:23 | 5:26 | 6 | |
| Insult Dogs and Emotional Support Alligators | 52:01 | 5:01 | 5 | |
| The Alzo Era begins in Austin! | 52:51 | 6:06 | 6 | |
| Our (early) endless summer with Lucy Dacus and more! | 52:43 | 6:10 | 6 | |
| Brandi Carlile helps us say goodbye to Bill Kurtis! | 53:48 | 7:48 | 9 | |
| We make Ken Jennings relive the worst moment of his life | 49:08 | 2:22 | 7 | |
| Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting | 55:26 | 8:38 | 6 | |
| We're live in San Diego with Ron Burgundy! | 53:12 | 6:36 | 6 | |
| HTDE: Burritos and Handshakes | 29:52 | 4:31 | 3 | |
| We go to confessional with Father James Martin | 52:01 | 5:31 | 7 | |
| We beef with the pontiff and admire the Stanley Cup | 51:09 | 4:51 | 6 | |
| HTDE: Crushes and Smells | 19:58 | 5:19 | 4 |
Ad load varies by listener. Most podcast advertising is dynamically inserted, so figures reflect ad load as observed by YAPP's processing pipeline at the time each episode was fetched, not what any individual listener hears. Methodology
Listening to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! with YAPP
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! runs 5.7 ad breaks in a typical episode, so there is a fair amount between you and what you came for. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 4.6 minutes per episode, or 5.8 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 31 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 11% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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