Jesse on NPR
One of the regular parts of “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” is the “Bluff The Listener” game where each of the three celebrity panelists tells a story about an outlandish event from the week’s news — but only one of the stories actually happened, and the contestant must guess which one it is.
As host Peter Sagal recalled this week, 10 years ago — not long after the show had gone on the air — one story on the “Bluff The Listener” game was a real doozy — the outlandish tale that a professional wrestler was going to run for governor of Minnesota.
The reason Sagal told that story was to announce that the guest on this week’s “Not My Job” segment would be … the man who not only ran for but won that office. I’m not necessarily a big Jesse Ventura fan, but I have to say he was a fun guest. And this week’s panel — Roy Blount Jr., P.J. O’Rourke and Amy Dickinson — was in top form as well.
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