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'Wait Wait' for May 4, 2024: With Not My Job guest Lyndon Barrois

Lyndon Barrois Sr.

This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, judge and scorekeeper Bill Kurtis, Not My Job guest Lyndon Barrois Sr. and panelists River Butcher, Joyelle Nicole Johnson and Josh Gondelman. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.

Who's Bill This Time
High Times In the USA; The World's Most Disappointing Masterpiece; Say Hello To My Little Friend

Panel Questions
A Wild Rodeo Roundup

Bluff The Listener
Our panelists read three stories about something named for the person who inspired it, only one of which is true.

Not My Job: We quiz miniature sculptor Lyndon Barrois Sr. on big sculptures
Lyndon Barrois is artist and Hollywood animator who's found fame making beautifully detailed sculptures out of gum wrappers. He sculpts in miniature, but what does he know about GIANT sculptures?

Panel Questions
At Ease Everyone; The Governor's Puppy Problem

Limericks
Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: The Squishiest Furniture, The GOAT's Scrawl; Laces for Loafers

Lightning Fill In The Blank
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else

Predictions
Our panelists predict what will be the next big story in the art world.

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