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Linh Pham<p>I've detailed in a new blog post some of the latest updates to the Wait Wait Graphs Site, including a new color scheme and two new graphs, Wait Wait Reports Site and Wait Wait Stats Page.</p><p>Read more about those changes and other site updates:</p><p><a href="https://linhpham.org/blog/2025/wait-wait-stats-updates-july-2025-part-two/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">linhpham.org/blog/2025/wait-wa</span><span class="invisible">it-stats-updates-july-2025-part-two/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>I've posted a copy of the notes that I've digitally taken for the Best Of <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> shows that I didn't have individual panelists entered for.</p><p>Yeah, I know, I'm using on Google Docs to share this (but not the canonical version).</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sYes7V7ELjhjKNmsehEgV8NjQsvepYALKvD1mGz-Cko/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d</span><span class="invisible">/1sYes7V7ELjhjKNmsehEgV8NjQsvepYALKvD1mGz-Cko/edit?usp=sharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>I'm wrapping up listening to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Best Of shows that I didn't have individual panelists entered into the Stats Database. So, I've been taking notes on panelists that I can pick out and the show date for those original clips and segments.</p><p>Of course, the last show of that group I'm listening to ends up being a show that I'm mentioned in for registering a random domain name a panelist blurted out 😜 </p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/08/27/139980804/mo-moments" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2011/08/27/139980804/m</span><span class="invisible">o-moments</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>Oops... at some point, MySQL replication broke between the two Wait Wait Stats Project production servers. Not sure what happened, but it's back up and running now.</p><p>🤦🏼 </p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>I've published a new blog post with some updates on the Wait Wait Stats Project, including version 4.0 of the Wait Wait Reports Site going live yesterday.</p><p><a href="https://linhpham.org/blog/2025/wait-wait-stats-update-july-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">linhpham.org/blog/2025/wait-wa</span><span class="invisible">it-stats-update-july-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>One of the tools that I have been using to determine the original show date and verify the panelists (although I can recognize most by voice, but there are some panelists that I haven't heard for a very long time) is the "Search Shows by Multiple Panelists" report that I build back in May 2022.</p><p>The report allows me to select 1, 2 or 3 panelists and it will return a list of shows they have in common.</p><p><a href="https://reports.wwdt.me/shows/search-shows-by-multiple-panelists" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reports.wwdt.me/shows/search-s</span><span class="invisible">hows-by-multiple-panelists</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>It's times like these that I'm glad that I started taking some notes from the 1998 and 1999 <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWait</span></a> shows, including some details re: Bluff the Listener segment. I'm able to quickly narrow down the show that the Best Of segment comes from.</p><p>By the way, I've uploaded photos of each show notes that I've been taking over the past few years.</p><p><a href="https://flickr.com/photos/questionlp/albums/72157718939162790" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/questionlp/a</span><span class="invisible">lbums/72157718939162790</span></a></p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>Starting to go through previous <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWait</span></a> shows that I don't have panelists entered into the Stats Database. First up is the Best Of show from December 25, 2004.</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>When I took notes for those shows, it was before <a href="https://linh.social/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> had any kind of transcription of the shows or the transcriptions didn't always note all of the panelists (especially for those speaking in the background or was spoken over by someone else).</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>I have been putting off re-listening through the <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a> shows from 2000 onwards for some time.</p><p>I guess it was a good decision since I have 9 Best Of shows (technically 13, but 4 are repeats) where I need to collect panelist appearance information.</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>When I re-worked the hosting of the Wait Wait Stats Project by re-adding a caching proxy in front of the web app servers (that so happen to also host replicated copies of the Stats Database).</p><p>The name of the new server is based on a technical director of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Why I focused on the title "technical director" is that I used to manage Cisco LocalDirector load balancers.</p><p>The new server is basically a version of a local director, or in more modern technical terms... a load balancer.</p><p>🙃 </p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>I have finished detached my personal domains from Cloudflare, migrating DNS hosting back to the domain registrar.</p><p>The Wait Wait Stats Project sites and the domain have also been detached from Cloudflare, DNS hosting migrated to the domain registrar, and now waiting for the subscription to expire.</p><p>So far, fronting the two Wait Wait Stats Project web servers with an NGINX caching proxy has met my needs to handling spikes in traffic (as it did during and after last week's Wait Wait taping in Boston, MA).</p><p>There are still things I need to tune re: caching duration, rules and what-not.</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/Hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hosting</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>Based on some of the analytics, I have a feeling that Joyelle Nicole Johnson will be on the panel for this week's <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitDontTellMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitDontTellMe</span></a>.</p><p>Possible other panelists: Maz Jobrani and Adam Felber.</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>I was able to get my personal sites detached from CloudFlare. I'm just waiting for domain registration and DNS changes to propagate.</p><p>The Wait Wait Stats API is now detached from CloudFlare. I will be working on getting the Stats Page and both the Graphs and the Reports Sites detached next weekend or the weekend after.</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/Hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hosting</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>Starting to detach some of the ancillary sites for the Wait Wait Stats Project from CloudFlare today.</p><p>I'll slowly work on migrating the main sites out from CloudFlare and on to load balanced servers over the next couple of weeks.</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStats</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/WaitWaitStatsProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaitWaitStatsProject</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/Hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hosting</span></a></p>
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