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'Wait Wait' for June 8, 2024: With Not My Job guest Charlamagne tha God

Charlamagne tha God speaks onstage during the 2024 Black Effect Podcast Festival at Pullman Yards on April 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.  (Photo by Derek White/Getty Images)
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Charlamagne tha God speaks onstage during the 2024 Black Effect Podcast Festival at Pullman Yards on April 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Derek White/Getty Images)

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 Charlamagne tha God and panelists Karen Chee, Alzo Slade, and Shane O'Neill. Click the audio link above to hear the whole show.

Who's Bill This Time
The Backrub Method; Starliner Takes Flight; The Doctor Gets Silver

Panel Questions
Why Divide The Good China When You Can Ask For More

Bluff The Listener
Our panelists tell us three stories about a dog losing its job, only one of which is true.

Not My Job: We quiz Charlamagne the God about lesser gods
When Lenard McKelvey got his first big job in radio twenty-six years ago, he decided to use the street name he came up with when he was a teenager, Charlamagne tha God. Now, he’s the host of the Breakfast Club national morning show, a podcaster, a producer, publisher and the author of three books. His latest, Get Honest or Die Lying, is out now, but can he answer our questions about lesser known gods?

Panel Questions
Grocery Shopping Etiquette; The Secret To A Long Happy High-Pitched Life

Limericks
Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Where Mail Carriers Fear To Tread; Plié On Leg Day; A Museum That Moves You

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

Predictions
Our panelists predict how will Pepsi get its mojo back now that it’s in third place.

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