Chris Thile was on NPR's quiz show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! last weekend. He discussed his new role as host of A Prairie Home Companion, which begins October 15 with special guests Lake Street Dive and Jack White. Thile, a co-founder of the band Nickel Creek, also answers questions about the similarly named band Nickelback in the segment "Not My Job," which host Peter Sagal describes as "the game where people who are geniuses at what they do prove how good they can be doing something else entirely." You can hear how well Thile did here.
Chris Thile was a guest on NPR's weekly quiz show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! last weekend. He spoke with host Peter Sagal about his new role as host of A Prairie Home Companion, which begins with new episodes this fall. Thile, a co-founder of the band Nickel Creek, also does his best to answer a few questions about the similarly named band Nickelback in the segment "Not My Job," which Sagal describes as "the game where people who are geniuses at what they do prove how good they can be doing something else entirely." You can hear how well Thile did in the segment below. And you can listen to the complete episode of Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! at npr.org.
The season-opening episode of A Prairie Home Companion will be broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on October 15. Joining Thile as special guests for the episode are label mates Lake Street Dive as well as Jack White. The new A Prairie Home Companion house band includes two of Thile's fellow Punch Brothers, Chris Eldrige on guitar and Paul Kowert on bass.
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