Podcasts like Tell Me Something I Don't Know

Tell Me Something I Don't Know (abbreviated as TMSIDK) is a radio gameshow hosted by Stephen Dubner. The show's pilot episode premiered on Freakonomics Radio, Dubner's economics program for WNYC. Envisioned as a gameshow turned inside-out, TMSIDK's contestants offer facts that they already know instead of trying to answer trivia questions found on traditional quiz shows. These "IDK's" (short for "I Don't Know") are then judged by the audience on three criteria of it being something that the show's hosts did not know, that it was worth knowing, and that it was demonstrably true.

Tell Me Something I Don't Know first aired as a special episode of the WNYC program Freakonomics Radio in October 2014. Formatted as a live game show, each contestant posited a question or problem for judges Malcolm Gladwell, Ana Gasteyer and David Paterson to answer of figure out. Upon revealing the fact, TMSIDK fact-checker Jody Avirgan verified the credibility of each "I Don't Know"—or "IDK"—for judges to rate based on the three criteria of it being something that they did not know, something worth knowing, and also being demonstrably true. From these scores, three finalists were whittled from the show's six contestants, and each was paired with one of the judges for the show's final round in which the Wheel of Maximum Danger was spun to determine various topics. Each pair of contestants then had two minutes to come up with an IDK, and the audience made the call as to who was the show's ultimate winner.