John Hickenlooper on NPR on the weekend makes too much sense not to happen more often. Hick did a great job on the NPR quiz show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” which aired Saturday and Sunday across the state.

And he made some news, sort of, about his national ambitions after his term as governor ends next year. “We’ll see,” Hickenlooper said to goading from host Peter Sagal.

The full quote was this:

“We’re going to keep a hundred percent of our concentration – no PAC, no committees to run for office. And two years from now, if everyone else is running, then we’ll see.”

And on the quiz, the politician who has never lost an political race went 3 for 3 on questions around the theme “not my job.”

Speculation is out there that Hickenlooper might take a run at the White House, the kind of moderate Western governor with a high likability factor who could reenergize the party post-Clinton. I’m on record predicting he’ll run against Cory Gardner for U.S. Senate in 2020.

Here is the segment taped last Thursday night at the Buell Theatre.

The governor held his own as a funny man against professional funny people, who all got giddy on the pot jokes.

He played the straight man it one bit, ironically.

“If you took a magical piece of silk and stretched it over the entire state, and it was so magical that you could drape over every mountain, go down and fill up every valley and every stream bed, and then you could magically lift this up and stretch it out, Colorado’s bigger than Texas,” Hickenlooper explained about how high the state is.

Panelist Paula Poundstone, well, pounced.

“I think everybody’s probably thinking this. How high were you when you thought of that?” she said to thunderous laughter.

Hickenlooper was quick.

“Five thousand, two hundred and eighty feet.”

Nice save, gov.

Much was made at the top of the segment about beer and pot in Colorado, and how Hickenlooper rose from an unemployed energy company to a brewpub operator to the state’s highest office.

Hickenlooper is the first beer brewer elected governor since Sam Adams, according to the quiz show.

“So does this mean in, like, 200 years, your beer is also going to suck?” Sagal asked.

Oh, snap, Massachusetts, NPR just said Hick’s beer is 200 years better than the pride of your state’s lager.

I have a prediction for what Hickenlooper might be up to in 2020, if he doesn’t run against Gardner. He’s the new host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” or, better yet, he and budget director Henry Sobanet give advice on car repairs.