Podblast! Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

People out there know me.  They know I'm a tree-hugging liberal hippie.

It should be absolutely no surprise to people that I listen to NPR on a regular basis.  It's my primary source for news (both American NPR and the broadcasts from the BBC), it's my go-to source for interesting music I don't normally listen to, and it's where a lot of my entertainment comes from.

For instance, there's a program I absolutely love called Says You!  I've seen it twice in person, and plan on seeing it many more times in the future.

But on Saturdays, there's a comedy news quiz that comes on that, I'll admit, I avoided for a while.  It's not that I didn't like it, it's that I was completely ignorant as to what a "news quiz" could be.  I figured it was just some guy trying to be funny to draw people in to what was essentially pop quizzes about news articles where specific names had to be read.

It turns out that's only part of the show.