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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.

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Fresh Air

Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985. It is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show's host is Terry Gross. As of 2017, the show was syndicated to 624 stations and claimed nearly 5 million listeners. The show is fed live weekdays at 12:00 noon ET. In addition, some stations carry Fresh Air Weekend, a re-programming of highlights of the week's interviews. In 2016, Fresh Air was the most-downloaded podcast on iTunes.

The show began in 1975 at WHYY, with Judy Blank as host. In September of that year, Terry Gross took over as presenter and producer; over 45 years later she remains its chief presenter. In 1985, WHYY launched a weekly half-hour edition of Fresh Air, which was distributed nationally by NPR. The show began daily national broadcasts in 1987. The show is composed primarily of interviews with prominent figures in various fields, among them entertainment and the arts, culture, journalism, and global current affairs. This main segment is followed by shorter segments, most often comprising coverage and reviews of events and new releases in various cultural and entertainment spheres. The subjects of these shorter segments include movies, books, stage plays, television programs, as well as recordings of popular music, jazz, and classical music. The program also features commentary from a range of regular contributors, including Maureen Corrigan, David Bianculli, Dave Davies, Ken Tucker, Kevin Whitehead, John Powers, Lloyd Schwartz, Geoffrey Nunberg, Justin Chang, Milo Miles, and Ed Ward. The show was formerly titled "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" but is now simply branded "Fresh Air."