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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Best of WWDTM Mo Rocca Revealed

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Other Games

4.635.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mo Rocca reveals more than we were expecting in this Best of WWDTM episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From NPR and WBEC Chicago, this is, wait, wait, don't tell me, the NPR news quiz.

0:12.0

It's summertime and the villain is easy.

0:16.0

I'm Bill Curtis, and here's your host, whose wife is still angry at him for dumping sand

0:22.2

in the kitchen to make a quarantine beach.

0:25.6

Peter Segal.

0:26.6

Thank you, Bill.

0:28.0

So every year summer seems to be over a little quicker, the day is getting shorter long

0:32.8

before you're ready to see it all go.

0:34.5

Fortunately, we've now solved that problem by making every single day exactly like every

0:40.2

other one forever.

0:42.2

The good news is you can wear white long after Labor Day now, because time has no meaning.

0:50.3

But we're doing our best to enjoy what we are told is summer, and we're doing it the

0:54.7

traditional way by lasing around and thinking about all the fun things we did back when we

0:59.2

were at work.

1:00.5

For example, we got to talk to actress and model Isabella Rossellini, who went from

1:05.7

international sex symbol to sex expert, at least when it comes to ducks.

1:12.3

Thank you so much.

1:14.3

Well, now I didn't want to talk to you before we get to your work a little bit about your

1:18.2

parents.

1:25.2

Perhaps the greatest movie star of her age, Casablanca and Gaslight.

1:28.8

Your father, Roberto Rossellini, great Italian film director.

1:32.4

How old were you when you realized that your family was not like other people's families?

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